win2k - scandisk at startup despite proper shutdown?

[saddy]

it seems that no matter how cleanly i do it, even if i were to shut down every program manually, scandisk will surely run on bootup. any idea why is that so? and the scandisk is awfully long each time (45 mins).. seems like a surface scan, but i am not sure.

 

[MarcusAsleep]

Well,

Your harddrive may be getting ready to fail, as scandisk is finding errors on it after a good shutdown. Is it scanning your hd, or is it something else like a zip disk or something?

I just lost a hd last month showing the same symptoms. Also, I was doing scan disk with windows running with no errors, but they were there that's for sure as soon the computer stopped booting!

Mark.

 

[bacillus]

by any chance do you have norton systemworks installed??

 

[Staver]

I'd go to the drive manufacturer's website and get their disk analysis tool to make sure that your drive isn't about to fail.

 

[saddy]

thanks. i'll get those tools now. will update.

 

[miguel]

win2k doesn't have scandisk at startup....win2k doesn't have scandisk at all if I remember right...

 

[saddy]

yeah, it's actually chkdsk i supposed.

 

[saddy]

i ran ibm's dft (drive fitness test). at the end of it, i was told that there is/are bad sector(s) with a red window alert. it gave me a trc number (forgot what does trc stand for), some sort of reference code for the error i have. tells me to run their erase utility to try to resolve it.

will backup my data now, and run their erase utility. if it still gives me the same error, i'm bringing it to them.

thanks to all. especially staver for the important reminder about the tools.