scandisk

[Guest proteanthread]

Is there a way to run scandisk @ startup before the Windows GUI is

loaded (like in Windows 95 or 98)?

[Guest Mike M]

Re: scandisk

 

Yes, by booting from a floppy. You might however be interested in

ScanDefrag (http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/) which allows both

scandisk and defrag to be run in much the way you want.

--

Mike Maltby

mike.maltby@gmail.com

 

 

proteanthread <rtdos@rtdos.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to run scandisk @ startup before the Windows GUI is

> loaded (like in Windows 95 or 98)?

[Guest proteanthread]

Re: scandisk

 

On Feb 11, 7:19 pm, "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote:

> Yes, by booting from a floppy.  You might however be interested in

> ScanDefrag (http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/) which allows both

> scandisk and defrag to be run in much the way you want.

> --

> Mike Maltby

> mike.mal...@gmail.com

>

> proteanthread <rt...@rtdos.com> wrote:

> > Is there a way to run scandisk @ startup before the Windows GUI is

> > loaded (like in Windows 95 or 98)?

 

 

Whenever I try to add anything or even "SCANDISK C: /CUSTOM" to

autoexec.bat, everything I added gets deleted; How can I override this

then?

[Guest Mike M]

Re: scandisk

 

proteanthread <rtdos@rtdos.com> wrote:

> Whenever I try to add anything or even "SCANDISK C: /CUSTOM" to

> autoexec.bat, everything I added gets deleted; How can I override this

> then?

 

So you chose to ignore my previous suggestion to look at scandefrag. OK,

that's your choice entirely as it is mine as I don't use it either but

then I don't have any problems running either scandisk or defrag. However

what you cannot ignore and that you have now discovered is that Win Me

doesn't use the autoexec.bat file which is retained solely for backwards

compatibility. This isn't strictly true because Win Me does process the

contents of autoexec.bat but on shutdown, rather that at start up,

transferring any SET environment variable entries it finds to the registry

for use in the next session.

 

Your options are to either run scandisk from a boot floppy, use scandefrag

or boot to Safe Mode and run it from there.

--

Mike Maltby

mike.maltby@gmail.com