scandisk issues in Windows 98

[earth_grinder]

In order for me to run Scandisk in Windows 98 I must uncheck all the Avast items in msconfig and restart the computer, run Scandisk and Defrag, if necessary, then reverse the procedure to start Avast protection.  If I don't disable Avast, Scandisk keeps starting over because it says something is writing to the disk.  I tried just disabling it via clicking on the icon, but apparently that does not completely shut it down.

[Vladimyr]

I haven't tried scandisk in Windows 98 protected mode for years but what you say sounds right.

Suggestion: Run Scandisk in DOS mode

[Mike Buxton]

Hi,

I can only tell that I have Ẅ98SE and I run a daily ScanDisk check on my partitions with my Avast Standard and Web Shields enabled and without needing to touch msconfig or anything else.

My regards



 

[DavidR]

I haven't used win98 + scandisk for many, many, years. What I do remember that it was always advisable to do the three finger shuffle (Ctrl+Alt+Del) and shutdown all non essential applications. If I didn't do that then it would get to 3-10%.

This was when I was using AVG, well before I used avast, so this isn't an issue exclusive to avast.

[earth_grinder]

Thanks so much for all the replies.  I forgot about the 3 finger shuffle, that would be easier and quicker.  I will soon upgrade this computer to XP so I can run the same programs on it as my newer machine that already has XP.  My XP machine is out of commission with a bad hard drive.  Thankful I kept this old Gateway for backup.  I used AVG on my other machine.  AVG no longer supports Windows 98.  Took me some searching to find a virus program that would support 98.  When I update this computer to XP, I will keep Avast on it.

[DavidR]

No problem, glad I could help.

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