ScanDisk won't work!

Camille · October 25th, 2002, 05:12 PM

Could someone please help!

I own a Sony Vaio (yes I know they suck) and I'm having a hard time running a scan disk. I tried shutting everything down, including the screen saver. Didn't work. then i tried it in Safe Mode and once it gets to be about 80% done, it just freezes. I have run different virus programs and scan disk programs and nothing has come up. I'm about to throw it out the window

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Help!
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**GroundZero3** · October 25th, 2002, 05:17 PM

what windows

are you turning off the virus scanner when you do your scandisk?

Camille · October 25th, 2002, 05:18 PM

Yes, i turned everything off. and I'm running WinME
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OuTpaTienT · October 25th, 2002, 05:37 PM

Are you sure it's freezes? Or is it just doing the surface scan portion (which can take many hours)?

Go into the options of Scandisk and turn off surface scan.

Camille · October 25th, 2002, 05:41 PM

It gets to be about 80% done, after starting over and over again a few times. Then the little icon which is moving the whole time just stops moving and the computer locks up, completely. The only way to get it to re-start is by doing ALT+CTRL+DEL. Unless it's still checking it. But let me try your suggestion.
Thanks

PS> it also doesn't do a Disk Defrag...

Redwolf · October 25th, 2002, 05:56 PM

Okay, amke a boot disk. Goto Start>Settings>Control Pannel, double click on Add/Remove Programs, and click on the tab marked Startup Disk. Tell it to craete a disk (you'll need a blank 3.5 inch floppy). Now restart the computer with the floppy in the drive. If it asks, tell it to boot w/out CDROM support.

Now you shoould be at a line that says something like:

A:\>_

type in:

scandisk c:

and press enter. It's an ugly version of scandisk, but it works. Let it run through.

MegalosSkylaki · October 25th, 2002, 06:32 PM

Camille

I had the same problem with a really great Computer, the SONY Vaio, which I posted here abouts .

Hmmm..just woke..

let me see if I can find or remember how I solved it, using that wonderful ME ...errr, the OS , not me..

I am thinking of starting a SONY Fan Club. By the way, if it's either the J150 or the J200 , you can thank me for the dubious pleasure of having a Reference Manual to peruse at their Web Site as I fought them 6 months to get them to keep their word and post it. It actually got to their Legal Dept.

See you later. Scans and defrags fine now. Thanks to TecHIMO--not to SONY !

DOOOOOOOG

MegalosSkylaki · October 25th, 2002, 06:39 PM

P.S. You can always visit Tech Support. Take Alligator Alley across to Ft. Myers and the next town, Coral Something...This is their major T.S. enchilada , with 600 workers thinking an Intel chipset supports an AMD CPU...or at least they did for 6 months.

baby asp-er · October 25th, 2002, 06:56 PM

camille, did you try ctrl-alt-del to shut everything down through the task manager?... the only things you need to leave running there are sys tray and explorer... I would end task on everything else... disable your screensaver and antivirus and task manager and try again. I've run into similar problems all the time and this usually fixes it...

Camille · October 25th, 2002, 06:57 PM

Yes, I tried that already.
Thanks