Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2003. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. Q. What happened to one ...

ANSWER: There are a few reasons that come to mind, a virus or damaged files and folder information would be where to start. First, be sure you don't have a virus. Microsoft notes that this issue can ...

QUESTION: When I run scandisk in Windows 98, my 300 MHz PC freezes immediately. The window shows scandisk as "checking file allocation tables....". The little disk icon on the top left hand corner is ...

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." ...

How come I couldn't see it under sys tools?<P>I tried using scndsk on dos . Its not very efficient.