Troubleshoot ScanDisk problems in Windows 95 and 98!
Troubleshoot ScanDisk problems in Windows 95 and 98!
Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 and Windows 98 systems may prompt
you to run ScanDisk at startup after displaying the messages:
"Windows was not shut down properly" or "One or more of your disk
drives may have developed bad sectors."
These versions of Windows include a feature that checks the Clean
Shutdown and Hard Disk Error bits in the system's Virtual File
Allocation Table (VFAT). The Clean Shutdown bit is cleared when
Windows shuts down completely and properly, and the Hard Disk
Error bits are cleared when ScanDisk completes a surface
scan--whether errors are fixed or not.
However, if Scandisk.exe is corrupt or the .exe file isn't found,
the error message and ScanDisk failure may occur each time Windows
boots. If ScanDisk fails to start and you see the messages
"Scandisk could not be found" or "There was an error running
Scandisk.exe," try replacing Scandisk.exe from the original
installation media and then reboot.
When this option isn't possible and you need to troubleshoot an
affected system, try adding the following line to the [Options]
section of the Msdos.sys file:
AUTOSCAN=0
This will turn off the feature that checks the Clean Shutdown and
Hard Disk Error bits in the VFAT. It forces ScanDisk to not start
when Windows is started.
If you change the AUTOSCAN value to equal 2, it forces ScanDisk to
start on Windows startup, but no warning message occurs--ScanDisk
just starts.
Windows Me comes with an HTML-based help system!
Windows Me comes with an HTML-based help system called Help &
Support that you can use to gain quick access to Me's utilities,
including Dr. Watson and the System Configuration Utility.
For easy access to a listing of your computer's utilites, click
the Start button and then choose Help. Click on the Assisted
Support link at the top of the page, and under the More Resources
heading, click on the View System Information link. When the
System Information window appears, display the Tools menu for a
listing of your computer's utilities.
Check the status of shared resources in XP!
If you're running Windows XP on a peer-to-peer network, you may
occasionally want to check the status of shared resources. For
example, it's possible to see what files users currently have
open.
This procedure is quite easy in the Shared Folder section of the
Computer Management MMC tool. Open the Start menu, right-click My
Computer, and choose Manage. Expand the Shared Folders branch of
the System Tools tree.
Once you open the Shared Folders branch, you'll see the following
three items:
Shares: This provides a Details view of all the shared resources
on the system.
Sessions: This provides a Details view of all the network users
who are currently connected to the computer.
Open Files: This provides a Details view of all the open files on
the computer.
These three views contain several columns, with a breakdown of
each connection.
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