Thanks to those who responded. Since most was off list, copying for the
sake of others who may have this problem in future. The only thing I did
not try was re-installing Windows, since one of the fixes seems to have worked.
Regards, Kent Jacobson
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:48:49 +0200
From: arnold kieboom <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Scan Disk - endless cycling / restarts
Hello Kent
This happened to me once.
The best you can do is start scandisk from DOS.
If possible with a startup diskette.
Works perfect.
good luck
Arnold Kieboom
Hi, Arnold,
I was able to get it to run in DOS, thanks. It still mysteriously did the
same thing when running Scandisk in Windows.
Regards, Kent
>Kent,
>
>Back in the days of Win95, I used to have the same sort of problem with
>scandisk. I don't recall what the final
>solution was, but I do remember what worked for me. This may be worth a try...
>
>Find the following two files, (usually in C:\windows\system), then cut and
>paste them to a temp location other than
>your desktop...
>( I believe it's pstores.exe that's the culprit, and I don't think
>tapiexe.exe even exists in Win98, but it did in
>Win95. Either way, move both if you have them. )
>
>C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\PSTORES.EXE (Protected storage server)
>C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\TAPIEXE.EXE (Windows Telephony DLL hidden app)
>
>Then try running scandisk again. If this works, then you'll have the
>culprit, but it's only a band-aid, and has to be done each time you run
>scandisk. I've had people laugh at my solution, so if it doesn't help,
>please let me know and I'll stop giving this advice.
>
>*** Remember to put the file(s) back into \windows\system promptly after
>scandisk completes, or you'll run into all
>kinds of other problems! ***
>
>Al Thompson
Hi, Al,
Well, I can't explain it, but something just worked.
I tried to cut PSTORES.EXE (it faded and looked like that's what was
happening) and when I attempted to paste it elsewhere, it was denied as
"Windows is using this file."
Ran End it All, (which I have done several times now) to shut down all
background programs. Thought before I try to move the file again, I'll try
Scandisk once more (probably had run 25 + times at this point). This time, it
worked!
Don't know if the attempt to move PSTORES.EXE had anything to do with it,
but I sure am going to try it again. Thanks again, Al, was getting
aggravating.
Regards, Kent
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