Dissable scandisk and force norton?

[elkinm]

The functionality of the new scan disk is horrible. It is fine when it runs at boot but if it does anything it does more bad then good.

I had some errors with crosslinked chaines that norton detected and specified a fix by copying the chains. With norton it usualy works but norton can't change the disk data so a rebot was required. Although I would think that the norton engine would run and fix it but instead the windows scandisk runs and destroys everything it finds.

The scan disk always destroyed any files it worked on instead of reparing them even if the worked perfectly before the repair. And now I am just sick of scandisk destroying everything.

Is there any way to dissable the xp scandisk and forece the norton engine to run at boot instead or even better to let norton gain access in normal windows and fix errors normaly.

sometimes these errors can be harmless if anaoying by destroying large and difficult to replace files. But the worst is when some windows files are destrayed forcing a complete reinstall. Isn't there a way to fix errors without destroying everyhting thanks.

Thanks
elkinm

 

[Smilin]

Norton doesn't really have it's own engine under XP. Chkdsk really is what you want running at boot. It may appear that othewise usable files are being damaged by the repair but if left unchecked one problem can cause another. BTW it's not a "new" scandisk. It's basically the same chkdsk program used since Windows NT 4.0 (XP is merely NT 5.1) with some additions to handle dynamic disks introduced with Windows 2000 (NT 5.0).

After you get a completed chkdsk try using system restore to fix the damaged files.

You also shouldn't need to run a check at boot time. NTFS is a journaling file system and will run a check if (and only if) needed.

 

[elkinm]

I tried defragmenting and I got an error in the recycle bin. Basicaly the recycle bin shows as full and if I try to empty it, it asks if I want to delete the windows folder. This error seems to happen a lot and most of the time a scandisk is not required but here it asked specifcaly.

I don't want to lose my files to the scandisk. If the file is working then scandisk should not need to destroy it but isnstead repair it. Norton can repair it just fine, but I don't know how to let norton have full write controll over the disk. And I do want norton to scan at boot as bofore and once again I have to watch and stop scandisk before running as it may distroy my files or even make the system unusable entierly.

Thanks