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by mansari2

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I have tried running ScanDisk on Win 95 several times but no success. I keep getting the error message, which is " ScanDisk cannot check this drive now because the disk is not properly formatted, or program such as a disk utility has locked it. Format the disk of wait for the utility to finish, and then restart ScanDisk." After that it crashes the explorer and remove all the running programs from the System Tray.
Is there a way I can solve this problem ??

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by plg6

Try this:

1) Reboot the system to DOS mode
2) cd \windows\command (or \win95\command)
3) run scandisk.exe from there.

That will run the DOS version and may clear up whatever is "sticking" your drive now. Do you have any software like an Ontrack disk driver or anything else that might interefere?

Another option is to reboot, then when it says "Loading Windows 95" or something like that, hit the F8 key. You'll get a menu of different boot options. Select the "Safe Mode" bootup and run scandisk then. This mode loads a minimal amount of drivers. If you can get the scandisk to go ok I'd suggest you defrag under this safe mode also. Then reboot.

by blikens

If this isn't a dual boot system and you aren't using drive compression you have several options. Your best bet is to boot from your emergency startup disk (be sure to write protect it), run FDISK /MBR and then run scandisk from the floppy. You didn't mention anything about a network, but if you have a cable modem or dsl, you should disconnect any network cables before booting.

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