I tried to run scandisk and i restarted the computer so that it could run, but i keep getting an "Unable to open drive for direct access" message. Now i can neither run scandisk nor can i restart ...

The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. Q. What happened to one of my favorite Windows utilities—ScanDisk? Before I upgraded to Windows 2000 I used ScanDisk all the time to ...

ANSWER: ScanDisk is a useful utility that searches for and fixes any hard disk errors that may have occurred if your system wasn’t properly shutdown. This may happen because a new user ...

I had a few hard locks and wanted to run scandisk on my boot drive. Upon reboot, scandisk starts to load normally but then it spits out "cannot open volume for direct access." I've never seen this ...

key, Scandisk runs (DOS version). I know from experience that the only way to stop it is to let it finish, including a surface scan. ANSWER: Even though you are shutting down the computer properly ...

You can use the Disk Cleanup tool to do this, however you might need to also clean up a folder that is used by Scandisk and Defrag as well. It is a hidden folder so: 1. Set Windows to show all files.

Q. My problem is that my PC developed problems with the Windows ScanDisk repair software after I attempted to fix another problem using Norton AntiVirus 2003. It started when I suspected I had a ...