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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent N. Jacobson" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 7:57 AM Subject: [PCSOFT] Scan Disk - endless cycling / restarts > Hello, All, > > Have a problem with Scandisk, running 98 SE. After a Blue Screen of Death > crash, will take several days and boot cycles for Scandisk to finally work > properly. Running with all background programs shut down makes no > difference, and plenty of RAM available. > > For the several days it takes to finally work, will exhibit the same > pattern. "Checking file allocation tables" for a few seconds, then > "Checking file folders" for a few seconds, back and forth, never getting > through either task but just getting started on each one. I will > eventually get the message that the task has repeated 10 times, do you > still want to continue? Either answer makes no difference. > > After several days, Scandisk will finally run correctly, but the computer > doesn't run properly throughout that time because there are unresolved > errors and I can't run Scandisk to fix them. Ideas, anyone? Thanks. > > Regards, Kent Jacobson > > Curious about the people moderating your > messages? Visit our staff web site: > http://freepctech.com/staff.shtml Do you want to signoff PCSOFT or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcsoft.shtml