ANSWER: There are a few reasons that come to mind, a virus or damaged files and folder information would be where to start. First, be sure you don't have a virus. Microsoft notes that this issue can ...

QUESTION: When I run scandisk in Windows 98, my 300 MHz PC freezes immediately. The window shows scandisk as "checking file allocation tables....". The little disk icon on the top left hand corner is ...

I had a few hard locks and wanted to run scandisk on my boot drive. Upon reboot, scandisk starts to load normally but then it spits out "cannot open volume for direct access." ...

Run the Scandisk program once a month to check for or repair any problems with your hard disk. Scandisk in Windows 95/98 checks your files and folders for data errors and can also check the physical ...

I've got a drive that won't complete Scandisk in DOS (it just doesn't go anywhere) -- and it runs out of memory in Windows (128MB with _nothing_ open). It will complete a scandisk on another drive, ...

Q. My problem is that my PC developed problems with the Windows ScanDisk repair software after I attempted to fix another problem using Norton AntiVirus 2003. It started when I suspected I had a virus ...