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Offline TopAce

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Scandisk and Windows XP
on: July 27, 2006, 10:50:40 am
My comp has started to have a bad habit. It can crash on me, any time, anywhere. Notepad has just crashed  :mad: on me in the most unexpected moment. I am planning a complete re-install soon, but first, I would like to know something:

Is it possible to avoid my computer starting with Scandisk? If it crashes and I abandon scandisk, it will still demand that I run through all the files at the next reboot. It's not a serious problem, I can simply press ESC and quit scandisk, but standing in front of the computer just to do that is tiring. So, is there a way to stop scandisk from running at reboots?
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Re: Scandisk and Windows XP
Reply #1 on: July 27, 2006, 10:55:40 am
Yes it is, just whack space or something else.............
Although i reccomend a disk scan  and defrag every 3>4 months....
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Re: Scandisk and Windows XP
Reply #2 on: July 27, 2006, 10:57:40 am
I scanned my disk at least a dozen times recently, of course with the scandisk that starts with Windows XP. I cannot run scandisk in any other way in XP, if there is an "advanced" version of scandisk in XP, I will surely run through it.

Defragmentation doesn't sound to be a bad idea, although I am not sure my comp won't crash doing so. :p
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Re: Scandisk and Windows XP
Reply #3 on: July 27, 2006, 01:05:31 pm
check to make sure your memory doesn't have problems. use a memory tester program like memtestx86
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Re: Scandisk and Windows XP
Reply #4 on: July 28, 2006, 10:48:48 am
Quote from: TopAce on July 27, 2006, 10:57:40 am
I scanned my disk at least a dozen times recently, of course with the scandisk that starts with Windows XP. I cannot run scandisk in any other way in XP, if there is an "advanced" version of scandisk in XP, I will surely run through it.

Defragmentation doesn't sound to be a bad idea, although I am not sure my comp won't crash doing so. :p

It's always been like that. Just tell it to do it the next time you restart, then simply restart your computer. Scandisk will takeover when it boots.
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Re: Scandisk and Windows XP
Reply #5 on: July 28, 2006, 01:08:37 pm
There is no scandisk in XP. Scandisk is a utility that runs on windows ME, 98 and earlier systems.

The utility that runs on XP is called 'chkdsk'
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Re: Scandisk and Windows XP
Reply #6 on: July 29, 2006, 09:45:55 am
Quote from: neoterran on July 27, 2006, 01:05:31 pm
check to make sure your memory doesn't have problems. use a memory tester program like memtestx86

I made a Google search for that, but all that turns up is a bunch of links to forum threads. Is that software freeware?

[EDIT] Sorry, found it.
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