Scandisk Not "Completing Task"

[FORK_BOY]

Hi there and Hello.
I got a problem running Scandisk on a friends system , it will not finish complete.....it tells me " scandisk found errors ,and fixed them all"...ok and i close the program..and scandisk should then just "Complete Task" But there it will just freeze....no respons , i might be able to ctrl+alt del sometimes but mostly i need to boot with the PWR-switch.I also runned it from DOS..no probs....but in windows ,,NO..and i need to run it from Windows cos i have to Defrag the machine..and the defragmenter can not do the job before scandisk has fixed the Errors...hmm....
Ok i closed all running task's/apps before sunning Scandisk....so im a bit short on ideas what to do....anyone/anything wil be nice...THX
Specs:Win98se/AMD K6-2 500mhz/128mb/

[Rocker6]

Hmm.... Are there any other programs running at the time? Check everything, even hidden apps that can only be seem with control-alt-delete.

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Joseph Volence
Assistant System Administrator
jvolence@yahoo.com

[FORK_BOY]

Yeah ..i did shut all appz...with the ctrl+alt+del.(always do).tried to run it again ...same prob....well ..i did run it from safe mode and that was ok....did the defrag after and it took forever but i did get through it.....but a scan from win ...will not work ..anymore...Someone told me to replace my scandisk.exe ...and i will try that later...THX ..all....

[chris200r]

I have had the same problem... I run Norton Disk Doctor and then run scandisk after that and it works okay for me... We have seen lots of PC's that do this...

[reghakr]

First, disable your screensaver.

Close all tray icons.

Hit Alt_Ctl_Del and end task on everything but Explorer and systray.

Now give it a try.
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A tip for Win98:
CLEAN DEFRAG:

To defragment all your hard drives/partitions with no overhead (background programs running or TSRs/VXDs loaded), change to the \Tools\Mtsutil folder on your Win98 Setup cd-rom, and right-click on Defrag.inf. Select Install.

This will create a one-time entry (DEFRAG.EXE /ALL) under this Registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunServicesOnce

Defrag will start automatically next time you boot, before the login prompt, therefore before any other program loads.

reghakr