Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:14:59 -0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help.. 70ct w/winME runs scandisk after every reboot???
Anthony,
Lawrence has a point. There may be something going on in your system that
is causing problems when you shut down, and that in turn may be causing
ScanDisk to run each time you reboot in order to fix the probem.
I'd suggest that, with ScanDisk turned off in msconfig as you have done, you
should try rebooting the system, and then try running ScanDisk manually to
see if it reports any errors.
But before you run ScanDisk, check to make sure the "Automatically fix
errors" button is not checked. That way if ScanDisk finds an error, it will
display a window discribing the problem it found, and, I think, asks if you
want ScanDisk to repair the problem. Write down what the message says, and
that may help to zero in on what's causing ScanDisk to run every time you
reboot.
If ScanDisk does NOT find any errors after completing its tests, then your
problem MAY be less serious, and could just something causing ScanDisk to
run for no good reason. In that case, disabling it in msconfig is something
you may be able to live with a bit longer. But DO try runing ScanDisk
manually after several reboots, and check to see what it finds.
Since I'm just trying to save time, and since ScanDisk runs much faster in
Windows on my L50 than in DOS at boot, I have ScanDisk set to "Automatically
fix errors", and then in the "Advanced" settings for ScanDisk under the
"Display Summary" options, I have "Always" set so it will give me a report
on the problems it found each time it runs.
There is also a log file, C:\Scandisk.log that ScanDisk creates that can
help to diagnose problems. If you have "Append to log" set in the "Log
File" settings in your ScanDisk "Advanced" settings, ScanDisk will keep a
running history of the problems it encounters, and fixes it made. That can
sometimes be a useful tool for diagnosing system problems.
Matt
>From: "Lawrence Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Help.. 70ct w/winME runs scandisk after every reboot???
>Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:05:12 -0800
>
>Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:01:47 -0500
>From: "Lawrence Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Help.. 70ct w/winME runs scandisk after every reboot???
>
>The reason for the ScanDisk running at startup is that you have a bad
>shutdown. Disable the ScanDisk does not solve any thing. Sooner or later,
>your disk will get corrupted because of the improper shutdown. Windows has
>a
>Write-back file cache mechanism. When OS or application want to write
>something to your disk, it does not write to the disk directly. Instead, it
>writes to the memory cache and will write back to disk after certain time
>(30 seconds?) to speed up the disk performance. In many times, a bad
>shutdown does not cause any problem but some time it does. When it happens,
>in most case, you have a corrupted FAT table and Scandisk will try to
>recover it with the backup FAT table and fix the mis-linked clusters.
>Without doing this house keeping, you're risking losing new data you stored
>into the system sooner or later.
>
>You should try to identify the true reason why the machine does not
>shutdown
>properly.
>
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>To: "Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 10:49 AM
>Subject: Re: Help.. 70ct w/winME runs scandisk after every reboot???
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> > Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:43:38 EST
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Help.. 70ct w/winME runs scandisk after every reboot???
> >
> > Matthew Hanson... THANK YOU VERY MUCH... You pointed me in the right
>direction, but windows ME is a little different than 98:
> >
> > To disable Scandisk from running automatically after a bad shutdown, use
>one of the following procedures:
> > On the toolbar click Start, click Run, type Msconfig, and then click
>OK.Click Advanced, and select the Disable Scandisk after bad shutdown
>option. For Windows Me, this procedure adds a Binary value named
>DisableScandiskOnBoot to the following registry key and sets its value to
>01:
> >
> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
> >
> > Thanks Again... SUCCESS!!!!!!
> >
> >
> >
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