system hangs during check disk

[Pdigmking]

I had this problem, when I tried to run a full check disk, or a check
disk with with the auto fix enable (this requires you restart your
computer), the computer would hang, and restart. I would eventually end
up with a recovery screen where I would have to select "use last known
configuration that worked".

I noticed that there seems to be a lot of people having this problem.

Here's what I finally did that got it working; I run spysweeper, zone
alarm (free version), and a norton antivirus. When I turned all of these
off before re-booting, the scandisk worked just fine. I don't know which
one of these programs was interfering with the scan, if I had to guess I
would think spysweeper, or zone alarm the most likely suspects. I got
the idea to do this from another post I found suggesting that you
uninstall zone alarm. Obviously, you don't want to be connected to the
internet when you disable all this stuff. I'm behind a router firewall.

I hope other find this info usefull.

Paul.

 

[Galen]

In Pdigmking had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

I had this problem, when I tried to run a full check disk, or a check
disk with with the auto fix enable (this requires you restart your
computer), the computer would hang, and restart. I would eventually
end up with a recovery screen where I would have to select "use last
known configuration that worked".

I noticed that there seems to be a lot of people having this problem.

Here's what I finally did that got it working; I run spysweeper, zone
alarm (free version), and a norton antivirus. When I turned all of
these off before re-booting, the scandisk worked just fine. I don't
know which one of these programs was interfering with the scan, if I
had to guess I would think spysweeper, or zone alarm the most likely
suspects. I got the idea to do this from another post I found
suggesting that you uninstall zone alarm. Obviously, you don't want
to be connected to the internet when you disable all this stuff. I'm
behind a router firewall.

I hope other find this info usefull.

Paul.

Hmm... chkdsk runs outside of the OS. Those programs shouldn't be (can't be)
loaded during that time. I'd say one might have been blocking the change
but, that's not the case, 'cause it was still running - you were just
erroring out. If you want to go ahead and run it from a command line the
next time you see this then here's the easy way to accomplish it
effectively.

Chkdsk, the reality:
http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general/chkdsk.html

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/ http://kgiii.info/

"Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and
its solution is its own reward." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[Pdigmking]

I'm not much of computer guy really, I can't explain or argue about why
this works, I just know it does. I just tried running chkdsk without
shutting these down.. and it hung again. Someone more knowledgeable than
myself will have to figure this out.

" I got the idea to do this from another post I found