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TomCat39 <tomcat39@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> my fathers PC is a Dell Dimension P3 about 2 years old with a 40 GB
> harddrive and Win ME. Recently when doing a normal(standard)
> ScanDisc the utility requested the "intensive" mode and a restart.

You sure ?  I cant say I have ever seen Scandisk
ever do that, switch to 'intensive' mode spontaneously.

You sure it was actually the standard scandisk that comes with ME ?

> During this intensive mode after some hours (just before finishing
> the 1.2 mega part testing) the program crashed just leaving coloured
> lines on the screen. Restarting the PC leads to the same thing.

That last is certainly normal, it will run
scandisk on the next boot if restarted.

> Once he requested a boot disk before coming to the ScanDisc part.

Not sure what you mean by that either, 'requested a boot disk'

> What could be the reason for that? (Harddisk surface defects?, a virus?)

Dunno, sounds more like its not the standard scandisk that comes with ME.

> How can I fix it? (is there a DOS prg doing that HD scan/repair job?)

Yes, in fact you can hold the ctrl key down during the boot,
get a menu of options, select the command prompt entry
and then type

scandisk c:

at the prompt. That will run the dos version of scandisk and that
will sometimes succeed if you're just seeing a situation where
the win version of scandisk gets very confused about what it
sees on the drive. Thats not normally surface defects, usually
the file system has got a bit scrambled, often fixably scrambled.