Re: "Cannot Open Volume for Direct Access" for Scan Disk

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From: Adm C (admchrissnospam_at_nospamhotmail.com)
Date: 07/05/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 01:14:57 -0400

I run Zone Alarm 5 and this is what I did that worked for me (and may or may
not for you):

You can go into ZoneAlarm (ZA) 5, go to the overview tab then preferences

UNcheck the PROTECT ZA CLIENT

That is what is protecting your firewall from malware and locking the hard
drive from a scan

Do the chkdsk then follow same steps and reenable for max protection

C

"Bills fan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:25f4401c46074$be6fd750$a301280a@phx.gbl...
patti,

thanks so much. it is version 5, but the weird thing is
right after i wrote this note, i got the new windows
patch installed and could run the scan disk. although i
installed the patch on another computer, with xp home
(vs. pro on the first one), i still can't seem to run the
scan disk.

anyway, guess zone alarm will figure it out.

thanks!

s
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Bills Fan,
>
>If it was version 5 of ZoneAlarm that you installed,
that is what is causing
>the problem. Turning off ZoneAlarm at startup doesn't
solve the problem, you
>have to uninstall it. Apparently, ZoneLabs is aware of
the problem and are
>working on it.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>--
>Patti MacLeod
>Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
>
>"Bills Fan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message
>news:25e8801c4606c$720f0d20$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> i'm trying to run scan disk on windows xp, which i've
>> always had to do with a restart of the machine. now
i'm
>> getting an error message that says "cannot open volume
>> for direct access" when i try to do this. the ms
>> knowledge base has an article (823439) that says ms has
>> confirmed a problem and is researching it, but the
>> article says "last reviewed 8/14/03". does anybody
know
>> what the fix is? this process worked for me last week,
>> and the only major software change is that i've
installed
>> zonealarm. i tried the scan disk after turning off
>> zonealarm at startup, but still got the same message.
>>
>> many thanks to whoever can help!
>
>
>.
>

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