catgate Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 I just wonder how many people have "binned" good equipment for these problems.I have a strange problem and was just going to post a query when I spotted this post. I thought it might be just the place for my enquiry seeing that there were some knowlegable folk about.I have just downloaded and run the latest AVG update and the test results inform me that there is a "reading error on disk C". So, being resourceful, I ran scandisk. I gave it the fully monte (including fix faults) but it would not run through fully and kept going back to the start. I then told it to do a standard scan on C:. It did the Check Folders bit o.k., but, when it went on to File Allocation Tables, it ran normally for a few seconds and then skipped back and started doing "Check Folder" again...ad nauseum.Any ideas, please?edit:-ps If I have transgressed and put this in an inapproriate place, would some kind mod. (there must be one somewhere) shove it into a more suitable spot? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 Have you got a screensaver enabled.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted October 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 Have you got a screensaver enabled.?No, fraid not.I did think of shutting down and rebooting to see if that helped (as it often does with these wierdos) but I thought it might not boot up again!!I also wondered about a failing HD but it has not reached that time of life yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadyassa Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 Maybe this will help click here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted October 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 Maybe this will help click hereWell what a curious thing, dadyassa. I followed the advice shown on the link you gave me and it simply told me to remove the "check boot area" from the AVG checking routine. So I did. Thereafter scandisk "standard" worked o.k. but it stll played silly b's with the "thorough" setting. I have a feeling that if this is due to today's update there could well be several members who might well need this information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 I've split these posts off as they are worth a separate thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 catgateAre you using windows98 then?If so restart the computer in "Safe Mode" and then carry out a scandisc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 I remember that you DO run W98. Either do as suggested above or press Control/Alt/Delete, and stop everything from running by selecting End Task. You will have to do this for each program, some maybe twice. ONLY LEAVE RUNNING, Explorer and Systray. Then run scan disk. When you reboot after the scan everything will start up again as normal. PLEASE note DO NOT end task Explorer and Systray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadyassa Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 Maybe this will help click hereWell what a curious thing, dadyassa. I followed the advice shown on the link you gave me and it simply told me to remove the "check boot area" from the AVG checking routine. So I did. Thereafter scandisk "standard" worked o.k. but it stll played silly b's with the "thorough" setting. I have a feeling that if this is due to today's update there could well be several members who might well need this information."We are working on a fix for it" quote by aldan Grisoft-team ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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