Re: Scan Disk

From: cquirke (MVP Win9x) (cquirkenews_at_nospam.mvps.org)
Date: 06/27/04 

Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 22:45:35 +0200

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 08:59:51 -0700, "Greg" <gmc147@aol.com> wrote:

>Why won't my Scan disk work anymore, it gets halfway and
>freezes, consequently it won't let me defrag.

The most significant reason why Scandisk, ChkDsk or other disk
maintenance tools freeze, is a dying area of the HD surface that bogs
the process down in a retry loop that goes on forever.

That can happen with any disk access, but is especially likely with
tools that look at every occupied part of the subtree, especially if
these go on to read every sector on the disk (as Scandisk surface
scan, ChkDsk /R, or third-party equivalents do).

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