How can I avoid W95 scandisk at start?

[Guest_imported]

Hello there!

I have a slight problem with my laptop, which is running under windows95. Everytime I start the computer, it executes the scandisk and if I skip it, it'll cause problems and I must reboot again.

If I let scandisk to run, then wants to make a HD errors checking, detects them and then wants to "repair" the damaged sectors, which are not damaged. If I don't let windows to repair them, the next time I reboot, starts all over again.

What can I do???

Thanks,
John Smith

 

[andreas57]

in c:\msdos.sys you have to have autoscan=0 or scan=0 andreas owen
aowen@arcade.ch

 

[joeabdo]

check if there is bad clusters on ur HDD

 

[Kjonnnn]

1. run scandisk and let it repair all that it needs to repair.

2. If it needs to repair after EVERYTIME u start up, either of two things are happening. Either your drive is bad, OR and the most probably cause is, W95 isnt shutting down properly.

Check your autoexec file to see if On Error do a scan is in there.

But first set aside a time and do a full scandisk to clear up errors. If you've never let it run to completion, that might be your problem.

 

[dakota81]

The easiest way is to get the utility TweakUI. There was a version for Windows 95, downloadable from the internet somewhere (try Microsoft's site first). I never tried out TweakUI for 95, I started using it under 98, though I know there was a 95 version. From this utility you can easily customize a multitude of options, including whether or not Scandisk runs on startup.

Don't worry about the message that is displayed about a possible problem with your drive, 99.999% of the time there is nothing wrong with the drive.

If you have actually do have a physical problem w/ the harddrive, scandisk cannot be trusted to notify you of any problems anyways. Your best indication is when Windows pops up with a message saying "cannot write to drive c:" or "unable to access cluster xxx", something like that.

 

[MiggyD]

If you have Win95 you may have CHKDSK.exe in the COMMAND folder. Try using that with verify and fix options. that may help. --MiggyD

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic.

 

[joelmiller98]

A simple and effective thing I always do when setting up a computer is rename these 4 files.

rename c:\windows\scandskw.exe scandskw.xex

rename c:\windows\command\scandisk.exe scandisk.xex

rename c:\windows\command\scanreg.exe scanreg.xex

rename c:\windows\command\scanregw.exe scanrgw.xex