Scandisk automatically starts

[fatboyjim]

OK, original problem is that Windows 98 laptop stays on "Windows is shutting down" and never gets to "Safe to turn off". Not sure why this is, and we have left it for ages before turning it off in the past

So now it's a case of shut down, wait 5 mins then turn it off manually. This then triggers scandisk with bad sector scan!

It's Dad's laptop so not sure what he's done to it, and it's from work so I can't do anything drastic like format the HDD for him

We're not bothered really about fixing the original problem, it's just Scandisk he wants to get rid of

I seem to remember there's a line I can add in either win.ini or system.ini or some other file which will not allow Scandisk to ever start at boot time?

EDIT! FIXED! Changed AUTOSCAN=1 to AUTOSCAN=0 in MSDOS.SYS and this has worked. Now back to the original problem of the improper shutdown! EDIT!

Thanks,

[reboot]

Have you applied the shutdown patch from MS? The one for 98SE. It also works in 98FE BTW, with no harm done.
Make sure that he hasn't changed any power settings first. If, in control panel, power, on the Advanced tab (or somewhere in there) he has API enabled, and see if that helps.

[fatboyjim]

No shutdown patch has been applied, whereabouts on the MS site is it?

Thanks,

[Redo40]

Here ya go Jim.

[fatboyjim]

Thanks a lot

I'll get it installed and let you know how it goes

Jim

[galaxian]

"EDIT! FIXED! Changed AUTOSCAN=1 to AUTOSCAN=0 in MSDOS.SYS and this has worked. Now back to the original problem of the improper shutdown! EDIT!"

Jim:
This isn't really a fix. It's a bandaid.

Now, if you "really" have a bad shutdown, scandisk is not going to run. And, this is when you DO want it to, before Windows starts anything else running.

[fatboyjim]

Well, as you can tell I was in a bit of an excitable mood when I did all of the Edit stuff

As for it not being a fix, I'm not really bothered. I have always thought scandisk to be useless anyway. I'm the one who will always "Exit" a scandisk check, I can't be bothered with all of those .CHK files anyway...

I haven't installed the shutdown patch yet though, I'll do this when he is next working on the laptop

Thanks for your help

[mikeL]

jim, what about running SFC to check for corrupted or deleted files.

also if you get a bad sector error, I would run a thorough scandisk from DOS to see how many bad sectors there actually are.

[galaxian]

"As for it not being a fix, I'm not really bothered. I have always thought scandisk to be useless anyway. I'm the one who will always "Exit" a scandisk check, I can't be bothered with all of those .CHK files anyway..."

The CHK files come from lost file fragments (lost clusters), but Scandisk is doing a lot more checking than just that. But, it is your PC and if you have all your data backed up, then what's another disk crash?

[andyms18a]

if the patch dont work click start run msconfig on the start up tab untick every thin except systom tray hit apply and reboot next try a shutdown if it works go back to msconfig and tick one item and reboot then shutdown keep on going back to msconfig ticking moor programs till the problam appears agen and the last prog you tryed is the one witch is stoping windows from shuting down