Scandisk

[Jim Cannon]

Hi,
When I try to run scandisk at startup, the program gives me the following
error message, "cannot open volume for direct access". Any ideas? Please
help!
Jim

 

[Jose Francisco]

Greetings Jim,

Unfortunately there isn't a hotfix or update for this problem. Check out
this site - http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBO/tip7000/rh7079.htm

Thanks and best of luck!

 

[Kenrick Fu]

This issue has been resolved in Windows XP Service Pack 2.

 

[Jose Francisco]

Greetings,

Good! SP2 has been delayed again

 

[Don MI]

Hi,
When I try to run scandisk at startup, the program gives me the following
error message, "cannot open volume for direct access". Any ideas? Please
help!
Jim

If you are using Zone Alarm 5.x, you need to uninstall or you could try this
work around:


Disable the Zone Alarm driver {VSDATANT} that is causing the problem. Then

enable the driver after chkdsk runs. Summary procedure:

Go to Device Manager and from the View menu select show hidden driver.

Right click on VSDATANT and select disable. Reboot.

Chkdsk should now run. Ignore any Zone Alarm error messages that may

occur as Windows XP loads.

Go back to Device Manager and right click on VSDATANT and select enable.

Reboot.





The above assumes that you have check disk pending. If not, schedule a
check disk before doing the reboot after disabling VSDATANT.



Don

 

[Jim Cannon]

Thank you all for your comments. For some unknown reason, Scandisk started
working but I will still look forward to SP2.
Jim