Tony
Fri Aug 01 10:43:40 CDT 2003
Thank you Mike. I will take your advice.
Tony
>-----Original Message-----
>If scandisk is running each time you boot your system
that means that Win Me
>did not shutdown correctly despite your assertion to the
contrary. The
>problem could be as simple as the system shutting down
too fast before the
>last few bytes have been written to the hard disk, those
bytes always being
>the amount of free space on the disk since this
information changes so often
>whilst the system is running that it is held in memory
rather than being
>written to the disk each time it changes.
>
>Tracking down shutdown and power-off problems (they
differ) can be somewhat
>difficult but may I suggest that you start by having a
look at MS KB 273746 -
>"How to Troubleshoot Windows Me Shutdown Problems"
>(
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=273746) and then move
on to Jim Eshelman's
>pages at
http://aumha.org/win4/a/shutdown.htm and
>
http://aumha.org/win4/a/shtdwnme.htm which cover this
topic. Hopefully you
>will find advice there that will help your resolve your
problem.
>
>You might also want to check that you have installed the
Windows IDE Hard
>Drive Cache Package from the Windows Update site. For
details see KB 273017 -
>"ScanDisk Runs Even Though Windows Shut Down Correctly"
>(
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=273017).
>--
>Mike Maltby
>mcmaltby@hotmail.com
>
>
>Tony <realwfl@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> Each time I startup my pc a thorough scan disk runs
before
>> anything will load in. This takes much time and is
>> useless because it never finds any problems. The
message
>> with the scan disk is "windows noticed an improper
>> shutdown", even though the shutdown was done correctly.
>> Any suggestions???
>
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