ScanDisk

[The Yankee]

Okay, I'm running ScanDisk on my computer on the other room...it's taking forever. I know it restarts to fix up the errors and everything...but the question is, does anyone know how many blue boxes there are to fill up? Just so I can make a very rough estimation of how far along it is before it restarts...when I looked, it was at 6 or 7 boxes.

Thanks!

 

[funxus]

I don't know, and can't find scandisk on my comp at the momment...

But maybe you could use a ruler on the screen?

 

[The Yankee]

Yeah, maybe. Oh well, I know it's going to take a very long time...very large hard drive combined with what may be the Spanish Armada of errors on it to fix...but I have to get through it on the Thorough setting and fix up problems before I can defrag the thing...oh well, it's been going for about 20 hours now.

There is progress though.

 

[truckingpete]

Okay, I'm running ScanDisk on my computer on the other room...it's taking forever. I know it restarts to fix up the errors and everything...but the question is, does anyone know how many blue boxes there are to fill up? Just so I can make a very rough estimation of how far along it is before it restarts...when I looked, it was at 6 or 7 boxes.

Thanks!

ScanDisk takes a long time if you have a lot of stuff on your computer. The more stuff, the longer. I don't know how many boxes though.

ScanDisk helps the computer to run faster. After a while, a lot of files are all mixed up...Once they get back in order, it runs faster. I would run ScanDiak every 3 - 6 months.

 

[kcwong]

@Yankee:

Are you using the scan disk surface option? If so, give it several hours. Even more if the HDD is large.

 

[Hawkster]

also make sure you disable screen savers / anti-virus and any other programs otherwise scandisk will keep restarting over and over and never finish.

 

[The Yankee]

Yeah, I never had a screen saver on there to begin with...and I disabled McAfee and several other programs that started up on the desktop just in case.

But it is a large drive, 80 MB, with a bunch of errors that need fixing and yes, the surface option is on, as well as automatically fixing the errors. Oh well...I haven't done it since a lot of problems came up...finally doing it now.