Re: Scandisc problem

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From: Marcus Young
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 00:00

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I've had this problem. Also running defrag .. it never gets past the
initial disk check. All you need to do is boot into safe mode. Press
F8 as the "starting windows" message appears in the top left hand
corner of the screen and choose to boot into safe mode. You'll find
you can then run scandisk and defrag without any problems.

Marcus

On Sun, 19 Sep 1999 19:10:32 +0100, Andy Mabbett
<andy@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>A couple of times lately, while running Scandisc overnight, I've been
>told "Windows has had to restart 10 times because another programme is
>using this drive" (I paraphrase). I've even tried closing down
>everything in sight (via CTRL- ALT- DEL).
>
>What can I do?
>-- 
>Andy Mabbett
>        "If they censure you, they tell you to cut it out.
>         If they censor you, they just cut it out."

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