scandisk in me?

[kruseman]

Hi. I had scandisk working and all of a sudden it quit working when i shut down my computer improperly. Could anyone help with how to get it to come back up on improper shutdowns. I can't fix any errors unless i'm out of windows. Please help

[deltaf508]

look at your other post http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum2/HTML/013945.html

[kruseman]

in my msconfig, in the advanced thing, it has a thing that says disable scandisk after bad shutdown. That was unchecked so it still did not work. Thanks for trying. Any more ideas?

[G]

Hi kruseman,
You need to edit your MsDos.sys file. However, in all probability it will be hidden. To unhide hidden files go to My Computer, View, Folder Options, and View. Under the Hidden files folder click on ‘Show all files’. Click Apply and OK. Your MsDos.sys file is now unhidden. Make sure after you have altered the MsDos.sys file that you click back on to ‘Do not show hidden or system files’ unless you wish otherwise.
To locate MsDos.sys it should be in your root directory ‘C:\MsDos.sys’ Using Windows explorer, click on the C drive, and in the right panel a number of folders and files will appear. The MsDos.sys file will look rather pale looking. Right-click on it and go to properties. Under the General tab go to the bottom and un-tick read-only. Click OK.

Now double left-click on MsDos.sys and an Open With dialogue box will appear. Go down the entries and highlight Notepad. Make sure that ‘Always use this program to open this type of file’ is un-ticked (It’s simpler to un-tick this box in the event that you wish to use an alternative program in the future). Click on OK. MsDos.sys will now be opened using MS Notepad. You should have a file that looks something like mine. The reason why scandisk does not operate on boot up after a poor shutdown is because you may not have the following line inserted in MsDos.sys or it may have a number indicating no scandisk on poor shut down.

The line you need is

AutoScan=1

This will result in scandisk working as you wish. It may be the case that yours is set to 0. If you do not have this line, you can insert it yourself exactly as mine is. As you have un-ticked read-only MsDos.sys file you will be able to save the alteration. Now find your MsDos.sys file again and tick the read-only box, click OK.

For your alteration to MsDos.sys file to take effect, you will need to restart your system. You can test it now with a poor shut down and if you still get no joy re-post and I will see what else can be advised.

All the best,
G

;FORMAT
[Paths]
WinDir=C:\WINDOWS
WinBootDir=C:\WINDOWS
HostWinBootDrv=C

[Options]
BootMulti=0
BootGUI=1
AutoScan=1
WinVer=4.10.1998
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;The following lines are required for compatibility with other programs.
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[G]

Double post

[This message has been edited by G (edited 03-31-2001).]

[perform]

G-man;
My Msdos.sys file includes
DoubleBuffer=1.
Why would I need this..?

[G]

Hi perform, (a duplicate of a post I made some time ago)

Boot in under a minute: Windows ME has this ability but older flavours of Windows can be coaxed into booting nearly as fast as tweaking a file called C:\Msdos.sys. Simply open a command prompt and type the command ATTRIB(space)-R(space)-S(space)-H(space)C:\MSDOS.SYS(Enter) Then type NOTEPAD(space)C:\MSDOS.SYS(Enter) Scroll down to the section labelled [options] and add

DoubleBuffer=0
DrvSpace=0
DblSpace=0
Logo=0
BootLog=0
DisableLog=0
SystemReg=0

Note: there may be other entries to but these can be left alone for now. If you do not have some of these entries then these can be edited into the file. It may be the case that you do not have some of these programs installed and that is one of the reasons why there is no entry.

Line 1 keeps Windows from loading a low-level device driver that’s generally only needed if you have an Isa SCSI card. Lines 2 & 3 keep Windows from trying to determine whether you need drivers for disk compression. FAT32 isn’t compatible with disk compression anyway, so there’s no point. Line 4 turns off the Windows logo, which increases boot time (sometimes significantly, sometimes not). Line 5 turns off Windows’ boot delay. The boot delay gives you a little more time to hit Ctrl at boot up to get to the boot menu. Line 6 turns off logging; while logs can be a useful diagnostic tool, more often than not they’re just slowing down the boot process. Line 7 keeps Windows from scanning the Registry at boot up for hardware profiles. Unless you have a laptop you’re probably not using these.

After you’ve added these lines, save the file, then enter the command: ATTRIB(space)+R(space)+S(space)+H(space)C:\MSDOS.S YS(Enter) at the command prompt. With these modifications you should improve your boot up times even if you have boot up password protection or a rollback program such as GoBack or whatever activated will boot up is commencing. The modifications go some way to improve boot up nevertheless.

Note: Msdos.sys may be hidden. This will be because ‘Do not show hidden or system files’ is activated. Go to My Computer, View, Folder options, View, and Hidden files. Activate ‘Show all files. You will able to find MsDos.sys now (‘C:\MsDos.sys’ typically). Make whatever alterations you wish and then change ‘Show all files’ to Do not show hidden files or system files - unless you prefer not to.

You can use both methods, i.e., using MsDos or the method described to kruseman (kruseman’s may be best used for anyone unsure of MsDos)

There are many alterations that can be made to this file and to others like this but this should be enough for now. One-step-at-a-time. One piece of advice I can recommend without reservation and that is to use GoBack Standard or Professional Edition. It’s an amazing program that you can trial at www.roxio.com (http://www.roxio.com) I always have this running prior to any minor or major changes. Even simple changes that can go wrong can require an inordinate amount of time to resolve these. GoBack will take 2-3 minutes. Also, there is the added feature of recovery from system failures that are sometimes awkward to resolve on start up. Just a piece of advise, take it if you want.

All the best,
G