Frusterating Scandisk failures

[Midnight]

That infidel, Scandisk. It says I may have errors on my disk surface, and a thorough check is advised. When I proceed, it gets to the point where it begins checking clusters, and then it freezes, after making minimal progress. I have to manually power down. This has been happening for quite some time, and I'm all done dealing with it. Someone, anyone, please. I suppose I should throw in the fact that I have already run Scandisk in safemode and with MS-DOS, to no avail. It freezes at some point during the scan, no matter which way I approach it. I'm pretty sure it's the reason my computer simply turns itself off at will, every once in awhile, and no doubt it's the nefarious culprit behind my computer taking it's own, leisurly time doing what I want it to, sometimes "forgetting" what I told it to do agonizing minutes ago and just sitting there. Please, oh please, someone help me fix this problem, and bring my computer back up from the intellect of a mentally handicapped bovine and allow it to ascend to it's former glory. I beg of you, anyone.

[The Dude]

The BEST way to run scandisk is in SAFE MODE because most drivers,etc that keep interrupting the scan ARENT RUNNING,so that is the best way to do it......

I have had problems with my defrag in the past freezing up,so i know what you mean.....

Good Luck....Welcome Ashore

[Jintan]

Maybe run scandisk from Command Prompt using a /checkonly switch. May let it complete the scan and provide a summary for a better assessment. I was given a pc with this problem - slaved the drive on another sytem and found it inundated with virus/trojan activity.

[Murray S.]

Originally Posted by Midnight

I suppose I should throw in the fact that I have already run Scandisk in safemode and with MS-DOS, to no avail. It freezes at some point during the scan, no matter which way I approach it.

Dude: Read the post !!

Howdy:

If you know the make of your hard-drive, go to the manufacturers website and download their diagnostics program.. Run that and see if your hdd is beginning to die!!

Murray

[The Dude]

Ah,thank you Murray......My mind was on other things (uugghh)

Thank you my friend

[jtdoom]

Hi
how much RAM is in your system?

and how big is the hard drive (partition) you run scandisk on?

what updates are used (scandisk win 98 had an update for big drives...)

while awaiting your answer, I will try find back the relevant facts about memory and size issues, but the memory size issue is one I do not recall an update for

[Nick Grana]

From all indications you gave, it may actually be your drive going south.
With the time it's giving you, a good backup would be a quick order.
As Murray suggested, a factory diag should prove that one way or another.
Good luck and let us know.

[Midnight]

Yeah, thanks alot for all the help, comrades. I wouldn't doubt it at all that it was my drive clinging with futile desperation to existance and functionality. My computers a fresh '97 Gateway, haha. I'll hunt down those diagnostics, but I'm already dreading finding out what they have to tell me. Thanks again, everyone.