ScanDisk

[Aaron]

Not sure were to post this so I thought that this would
be a good place. The other day--approximately a week or
two--I ran ScanDisk on my secondary hard disk, a prompt
came up saying that I must restart in order for scandisk
to scan hard drive. I clicked OK and XP rebooted. Upon
rebooting, ScanDisk stopped scanning almost immediately,
and reported that it couldn't scan because the hard drive
was formated under NTFS.

What my problem now is...it keeps trying to scan the hard
drive everytime I load XP. How do you stop it? I
tried 'msconfig' to no avail. Where else should I look.
If you can...will you send a response to my email address
at the top? Thanks in advance.

 

[David H. Lipman]

Go to the hard disk manufacturer's web site and download their diagnostic software
respective to your hard disk. After the test, you will know if the hard disk is bad or
not..

Quantum/Maxtor - PowerMax
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm

Western Digital - Data LifeGuard Tools (DLGDiag)
http://support.wdc.com/download/

Hitachi/IBM - Drive Fitness Test (DFT)
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

Seagate - SeaTools
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/

Fujitsu - Diagnostic Tool
http://www.fcpa.com/download/hard-drives/

Samsung - Disk manager
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/

Dave






| Not sure were to post this so I thought that this would
| be a good place. The other day--approximately a week or
| two--I ran ScanDisk on my secondary hard disk, a prompt
| came up saying that I must restart in order for scandisk
| to scan hard drive. I clicked OK and XP rebooted. Upon
| rebooting, ScanDisk stopped scanning almost immediately,
| and reported that it couldn't scan because the hard drive
| was formated under NTFS.
|
| What my problem now is...it keeps trying to scan the hard
| drive everytime I load XP. How do you stop it? I
| tried 'msconfig' to no avail. Where else should I look.
| If you can...will you send a response to my email address
| at the top? Thanks in advance.

 

[Steve Nielsen]

Not sure were to post this so I thought that this would
be a good place. The other day--approximately a week or
two--I ran ScanDisk on my secondary hard disk, a prompt
came up saying that I must restart in order for scandisk
to scan hard drive. I clicked OK and XP rebooted. Upon
rebooting, ScanDisk stopped scanning almost immediately,
and reported that it couldn't scan because the hard drive
was formated under NTFS.

What my problem now is...it keeps trying to scan the hard
drive everytime I load XP. How do you stop it? I
tried 'msconfig' to no avail. Where else should I look.
If you can...will you send a response to my email address
at the top? Thanks in advance.

You must have upgreaded from Windows 98/ME, right? Don't use Scandisk
with XP. Use Start, Run, type in

CHKDSK /F

Hit enter, answer Y and reboot.

CHKDSK will scan the disk for file system errors.

Steve

 

[Aaron]

Actually, I've had XP for a couple of years. I tried
starting "chkdsk /f" from the run menu like you said,
then I chose "n". Rebooted, and I still have the problem.

 

[Steve N.]

Actually, I've had XP for a couple of years. I tried
starting "chkdsk /f" from the run menu like you said,
then I chose "n". Rebooted, and I still have the problem.

"N" cancels the disk check on reboot. If it won't complete then there
may be bad sectors, in that case use CHKDSK /R.

Steve