scandisk starts running every time i boot up....

[bluewest11]

Could someone please give me some idea as to why scandisk runs every time I boot up my computer saying my system was not shut down correctly even when it was, thanks.

[bomac58]

What do you mean by boot up? What os are you using?

[qball]

Go to Start, Run, type in 'msconfig'. Or is it Start, Program, Accessories, System Properties...? Anyway, try both, as I am on NT box. One of them will have a tabbed dialog box. Choose the startup tab and click or unclick the 'Run Scandisk at startup' option. This will stop scandisk from ever running at startup.

[cyclone2]

Yeh. its msconfig then click the advanced box and Stop Scandisk from running after bad shutdown

[bluewest11]

Sorry I'm late getting back to you guys. I was not aware my thread had been moved to this location. Thanks for the advice on this matter and I will configure the system so scandisk cannot run at start up. I will however try to find out what is making scandisk run at startup before I disable it. The OS is win 98 (1st) and by boot up, I mean when the computer first starts up. Thanks again all.

[Eli]

Does it run scandisk before it gets to the desktop (ie. the blue screened dos version) or after it gets into Windows?

[bluewest11]

Scan disk runs before the computer gets into windows just after booting up (dos).