God damn M@#$%@#$% Windows

[A4000_Mad]

You have my pity! I gave up tying to run scandisk with Norton Antivirus installed. I found out the best thing to do was to just turn the darn PC off at the mains. When I switch it back on it displays the blue screen "Windoze was not shut down properly blah blah blah blah" and does the scan ok :pint:

[A4000_Mad]

adz wrote:

@A4000_Mad

Firstly, don't use anything Symantec/Norton. Besides which, I've done plenty of defrags with Symantec AV running no problems, must be something your doing thats upsetting it. BTW, all journaled file systems require a check of some kind if power is cut suddenly, it's all part of trying to protect your data. Ever shut an Amiga off during a disk write?

Thanks adz

I did all I could to run scandisk from inside Windoze. I even asked an expert who guided me through making changes in the registry. With XP you can arrange scandisk to run the next time you start the computer, which is fine. But coudn't do that in Win98 of my little 500Mhz Compaq Deskpro. I didn't switch it off while it was in the middle of a scan. I waited till it said something like "Windoze has made you sit there frustrated while it has fooked about 10 times but another program is writing to the drive. Do you want it continue winding you up some more?". I clicked "No" and waited for all disk activity to stop before switching off at the mains. I would never switch a PC or an Amiga off while there is HDD or floppy drive activity going on :-)


Oh! I coudn't possibly give up using Norton Ghost for copying HDD's and setting up PC's quickly :-D

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