scandisk

[proteanthread]

Is there a way to run scandisk @ startup before the Windows GUI is
loaded (like in Windows 95 or 98)?

 

[Mike M]

Yes, by booting from a floppy. You might however be interested in
ScanDefrag (http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/) which allows both
scandisk and defrag to be run in much the way you want.
--
Mike Maltby
mike.maltby@gmail.com


proteanthread <rtdos@rtdos.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to run scandisk @ startup before the Windows GUI is
> loaded (like in Windows 95 or 98)?

 

[proteanthread]

On Feb 11, 7:19 pm, "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote:
> Yes, by booting from a floppy.  You might however be interested in
> ScanDefrag (http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/) which allows both
> scandisk and defrag to be run in much the way you want.
> --
> Mike Maltby
> mike.mal...@gmail.com
>
> proteanthread <rt...@rtdos.com> wrote:
> > Is there a way to run scandisk @ startup before the Windows GUI is
> > loaded (like in Windows 95 or 98)?


Whenever I try to add anything or even "SCANDISK C: /CUSTOM" to
autoexec.bat, everything I added gets deleted How can I override this
then?

 

[Mike M]

proteanthread <rtdos@rtdos.com> wrote:

> Whenever I try to add anything or even "SCANDISK C: /CUSTOM" to
> autoexec.bat, everything I added gets deleted How can I override this
> then?

So you chose to ignore my previous suggestion to look at scandefrag. OK,
that's your choice entirely as it is mine as I don't use it either but
then I don't have any problems running either scandisk or defrag. However
what you cannot ignore and that you have now discovered is that Win Me
doesn't use the autoexec.bat file which is retained solely for backwards
compatibility. This isn't strictly true because Win Me does process the
contents of autoexec.bat but on shutdown, rather that at start up,
transferring any SET environment variable entries it finds to the registry
for use in the next session.

Your options are to either run scandisk from a boot floppy, use scandefrag
or boot to Safe Mode and run it from there.
--
Mike Maltby
mike.maltby@gmail.com