scandisk

[RoZNeT]

I would like to know if it is possible to stop scandisk from running when my computer is not shutdown correctly. I changed the value of autoscan in the msdos.sys file to 0, but scandisk still runs when my computer crashes. Does anyone know how to stop scandisk from running?

[ryan2049]

If you are running Windows ME you can go to start/run type msconfig then go to advanced and check disable scandisk after bad shutdown if you are asked to restart then do it. I don't know if that will do it I've never done it before but it should.

[stereo_freak]

Not sure about WinME, but other versions of windows you can edit the msdos.sys and add the following line under "[Options]":

autoscan=0

I sem to have problems on some windows98SE computers where this doesn't always work, but typically it does

(remember that msdos.sys is set to read-only, so you'll have to change the file attributes before editing it)