Scan disk at start up..every time

[TKinHawaii]

My son's machine (Win 98SE) has developed a quirk. With every start up,
reboot or whatever, the programs goes to Scan Disk. He let it run once and it
took almost 6 hours to complete. He does not have much on the drives so I
wonder why it took so long, but more important, why does it go to Scan Disk
every boot ? He did get a virus in Explorer and is now usning Netscape as all
the fixes we found did not remove the Explorer problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TK

[Bert Kinney]

Hi TK,

Here are a couple of possibilities.
ScanDisk Runs After Improper Shutdown or Hard Disk Error:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;152404

ScanDisk Runs Even Though Windows Shut Down Correctly:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q273017

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Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

"TKinHawaii" wrote
> My son's machine (Win 98SE) has developed a quirk. With every start up,
> reboot or whatever, the programs goes to Scan Disk. He let it run once and
> it
> took almost 6 hours to complete. He does not have much on the drives so I
> wonder why it took so long, but more important, why does it go to Scan
> Disk
> every boot ? He did get a virus in Explorer and is now usning Netscape as
> all
> the fixes we found did not remove the Explorer problem.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> TK