CHECKDISK/ NORTON DISK DOCTOR!!!!!!

[Virgo]

How do you unlock a drive? The disk DR. said my drive is locked and disk
doctor cannot finish it's cycle, and I should possibly move the pagefile.
Move is where? I don't have another disk to remove it to. Could I possibly
turn it off temporarily so this disk clean/repair cycle can finish, and then
restore it without any damage? It says it cannot repair the disk because
another Windows program is accessing the disk, so every time I power up I
have to go through this loooong process of watching the chkdsk, and then it
won't finish. Norton suggests I move the pagefile. I'm lost. Help!!! Thank
you

 

[Wesley Vogel]

This seems to be a very common problem recently.

Do you have ZoneAlarm 5 ??

[[Since the new version 5.0 of TrueVector accesses the disk so early in the
boot-sequence, CHKDISK cannot run with the /F option at boot-time, because
it needs to access the disk directly.]]

Uninstall ZA5 and install an earlier version.

Or get the ZA update that *fixes* this problem.

 

[Virgo]

Wesley,
Thank you, but no that was not the problem. This is actually my Dad's
computer that I wrote about, and no, he did not have zone alarm. This is all
from Norton. I did some tweaking today, and think I fixed the problem, but
had to leave before the shut down was completely finished so as to beat the
holiday traffic. However, I know that it was not Zone Alarm. I disabled his
pagefile, and that might have been the program that was locking the files so
Disk Doctor could not repair. And I had him remove most of his Norton
programs. But thank you for your reply. Virgo

This seems to be a very common problem recently.

Do you have ZoneAlarm 5 ??

[[Since the new version 5.0 of TrueVector accesses the disk so early in the
boot-sequence, CHKDISK cannot run with the /F option at boot-time, because
it needs to access the disk directly.]]

Uninstall ZA5 and install an earlier version.

Or get the ZA update that *fixes* this problem.


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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes

In

How do you unlock a drive? The disk DR. said my drive is locked and
disk doctor cannot finish it's cycle, and I should possibly move the
pagefile. Move is where? I don't have another disk to remove it to.
Could I possibly turn it off temporarily so this disk clean/repair
cycle can finish, and then restore it without any damage? It says it
cannot repair the disk because another Windows program is accessing
the disk, so every time I power up I have to go through this loooong
process of watching the chkdsk, and then it won't finish. Norton
suggests I move the pagefile. I'm lost. Help!!! Thank you

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Good luck, Virgo!

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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes

In

Wesley,
Thank you, but no that was not the problem. This is actually my
Dad's computer that I wrote about, and no, he did not have zone
alarm. This is all from Norton. I did some tweaking today, and think
I fixed the problem, but had to leave before the shut down was
completely finished so as to beat the holiday traffic. However, I
know that it was not Zone Alarm. I disabled his pagefile, and that
might have been the program that was locking the files so Disk Doctor
could not repair. And I had him remove most of his Norton programs.
But thank you for your reply. Virgo "Wesley Vogel"

This seems to be a very common problem recently.

Do you have ZoneAlarm 5 ??

[[Since the new version 5.0 of TrueVector accesses the disk so early
in the boot-sequence, CHKDISK cannot run with the /F option at
boot-time, because it needs to access the disk directly.]]

Uninstall ZA5 and install an earlier version.

Or get the ZA update that *fixes* this problem.


--
Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes

In

How do you unlock a drive? The disk DR. said my drive is locked and
disk doctor cannot finish it's cycle, and I should possibly move the
pagefile. Move is where? I don't have another disk to remove it to.
Could I possibly turn it off temporarily so this disk clean/repair
cycle can finish, and then restore it without any damage? It says
it cannot repair the disk because another Windows program is
accessing the disk, so every time I power up I have to go through
this loooong process of watching the chkdsk, and then it won't
finish. Norton suggests I move the pagefile. I'm lost. Help!!!
Thank you