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by arthurp
Hello,
I would be grateful if you could please provide a little more detail ...
What Operating System are you using ?
What is the HD - who if the manufacturer?
A good ground rule is ...
Would you phone your local garage and say to the mechanic "my car doesn't work, how do I fix it?", without letting him know the make and model ?
Arthur
by keithpup
If I assume you are running windows 9X then I can suggest you Edit your "MSDOS.SYS" to make this happen.
If you uncheck the read only attribute and open MSDOS.SYS in Notepad, then you can change the line AUTOSCAN="1" and Change it to AUTOSCAN="0"
by neal2002
Change the attributes for MSDOS.SYS so it is not 'Read Only', MSDOS.SYS is found in the root directory of your C:\ drive. Open the file using Notepad or another text editor (not Microsoft Word or any word processor).
Change the value of 'AutoScan=' to:
AutoScan=0 : Scandisk is Disabled
AutoScan=1 : Scandisk Prompts First
AutoScan=2 : Scandisk Runs Automatically
Changes will take place on the next reboot.
by lrund
The scandisk should not be running at startup unless the computer was not shutdown correctly to begin with. Simply turning off scandisk at startup patches the symptoms not the overlying problem.
Reasons for the scandisk running are incorrect shutdown of the computer, hardware problems which includes both the HD and cache, and too fast of a processor for the HD. In other words the processor cuts power to the system before the cache has a chance to write all of its data to the HD. All of theseconditions can result in boken links orphaned clusters on the HD which scandisk fixes.
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