On 24 Aug 99, at 14:37, David Rezachek wrote:

> I am running Windows 98 on a HP Pavilion 6370Z. Almost every time I turn
> on the computer, or restart it, Scandisk starts. This can take a long time
> with an 8gig HD. Does anyone have any idea why this happens?

  Scandisk will usually run automatically at startup if the machine was not
shut down "properly"....

  I recently had a problem with a system running Win 98 SE.  When I selected
"shutdown", it would power itself OFF before completing the Windows shutdown;
this meant that, like your machine, it would practically always run Scandisk
when booted back up.
  In my case, it looks like this may be the result of a conflict between the
motherboard and one of the hard drives; I wouldn't expect that on a stock HP
box, so that's probably not your exact problem.

  But the key is that this is probably a symptom of a *shutdown* problem, and
you should grab the Microsoft KB article about troubleshooting shutdown
problems and see if it can help.


David G

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