Scandisk in Win95

[Roost]

Is there a way of stopping scandisk loading up in DOS when running a win95 machine?

Cheers

[Pij]

Do you mean starting it when booting up windows?

If so i dont think there is but you can set it up so when it scans the disk it doesnt prompt.

[davesol]

You need to edit the msdos.sys file on the root of the drive and set AutoScan=0.

See http://www.onecomputerguy.com/install/msdos_sys.htm for more detail

[Wild_Cat]

It's a bad idea to disable it, though. FAT is a notoriously unreliable file system, and it tends to corrupt data very easily when you don't shut down your system properly. Scandisk is more or less here to plug the holes.

[Roost]

Managed to sort it out without having to turn it off. Was giving internal stock overflow errors before.

Cheers lads.