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Where is the Scandisk info stored?
This is really ****ing me off. I have 7 partitions. C: is for Win98se.
D: is for Win2000 (dual boot). E: thru I: are just for storage and work space. About 2 weeks ago, the power went out from a storm. When I restarted the computer it insisted on running scandisk on ALL partitions, C: D: E: F: G: H: and I: I was booted to Win98 at the time of the power outage. I allowed Scandisk to run on Drive C:. I stopped it after it began to run on D:. I was not using Win2000 (on D, so there is no reason that partition needs Scandisk. I did since manually scandisk F: since I had Agent running when the power outage occurred, and it's on F:. I have since rebooted daily (I shut off the computer at night). Every day it begins to run scandisk on D:, and I have to exit out. Sure I could waste a half hour and let it run all all partitions (I have large drives), but why? What file contains the info about running scandisk after an improper system shutdown? There must be some way to manually modify it to stop this scandisk ****. Thanks |
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Where is the Scandisk info stored?
On May 5, 1:01*am, wrote:
This is really ****ing me off. *I have 7 partitions. *C: is for Win98se. D: is for Win2000 (dual boot). *E: thru I: are just for storage and work space. *About 2 weeks ago, the power went out from a storm. *When I restarted the computer it insisted on running scandisk on ALL partitions, C: D: E: F: G: H: and I: I was booted to Win98 at the time of the power outage. *I allowed Scandisk to run on Drive C:. *I stopped it after it began to run on D:. I was not using Win2000 (on D, so there is no reason that partition needs Scandisk. *I did since manually scandisk F: since I had Agent running when the power outage occurred, and it's on F:. I have since rebooted daily (I shut off the computer at night). *Every day it begins to run scandisk on D:, and I have to exit out. *Sure I could waste a half hour and let it run all all partitions (I have large drives), but why? What file contains the info about running scandisk after an improper system shutdown? *There must be some way to manually modify it to stop this scandisk ****. Thanks It's not a file that makes scandisk run at bootup, it's a bit flipped in an obscure location in the partition tables or master boot record sectors - I don't recall the exact location since it would do me no good as I don't have a sector editor that sophisticated nor would it be likely that I could figure out exactly which one to flip back in order to stop it. I just shut off the annoying run at boot up by modifying msdos.sys with the AutoScan=0 line in the [Options] list and have never been sorry for it. Don't forget to reset your attributes for that read only and system file or Windows will kill it and make a real mess of things for you. Another fine example of a self-protection system wildly out of whack with reality. Windows flips the bit once booted and will re-flip it if shut down correctly, just before shutting off. BUT upon an improper shutdown, scandisk has to run on that partition to completion or it will NEVER be reset again. Unless you flip it manually. Microsoft does describe it in their technical papers concerning file systems, FAT and other detailed hard drive information, but I never kept a link to it since I'm on dial up and have little use of files approaching the size of my hard drive. MSDN hosted it IIRC, but you might find it faster if you start looking for interrupt 13 information and pages. All I have on it, best of luck. |
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