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I tried running scandisk and I get this error now

J

Joyride

Golden Member
I have XP SP1

I tried to do scandisk in XP and it told me it would schedule it next time I restart my computer.

Now everytime I restart I get the error

"Can Not Open Volume For Direct Access"

My HD is NTFS

I had been able to run scan disk fine until this happened.

Can I get rid of this without formatting my HD or would it go away after formatting.

Would this also be the reason I haven't been able to download anything recently

Thank you for you help.
 
Are you running Zone Alarm?
If so,
One of the recent builds (i forget which build number) caused this problem. The newest version of Zone Alarm fixes that problem, you just gotta uninstall Zone Alarm with the /CLEAN option, and install the new one.
 
This may be due to the volume getting "dismounted".

This happened to a HD of mine that had an error (bad sectors). The PC would lock up writing to the drive, and I had to do a hard reboot. Then it would blue screen following the reboot.

I would "fix" it by running scandisk under Partition Magic under a DOS diskette.

Be careful as this may end up screwing up the disk (at least the partition table) and causing all the data to be "lost". (The data most likely will still be there but inaccessible.)

If you're going to format, why not try it...
 
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