Scan Disk is looping

[John]

Recently i ran a scan disk (scheduled to run on reboot) on
win XP pro. it ran successfully but now it runs everytime
the pc boots and i can't get into windows. I was able to
get in using last known good but on a reboot it started
again and now last known good doesn't work.
does anyone know how to fix this? Maybe by holding f8 on
boot and not starting a service? maybe booting to dos and
copying the registry to another machine to edit?

[Brin]

Can you start in Safe mode (F8) and then open the scandisk program and
disable the autoscan?


"John" > wrote in message
...
> Recently i ran a scan disk (scheduled to run on reboot) on
> win XP pro. it ran successfully but now it runs everytime
> the pc boots and i can't get into windows. I was able to
> get in using last known good but on a reboot it started
> again and now last known good doesn't work.
> does anyone know how to fix this? Maybe by holding f8 on
> boot and not starting a service? maybe booting to dos and
> copying the registry to another machine to edit?

[Derek]

I have this problem too. No one seemed to be able to help me with it. I
used to be able to run scan disk just fine (scheduled on reboot), then all
of a sudden it looped just like you said. I've had to restore my system a
couple times because of it. I haven't run my scan disk since because it
keeps doing that and I'm sick of restoring. Like I said, it used to work
just fine and all of a sudden started looping out of the blue.

Trying to start in Safe Mode didn't work either

Derek

"John" > wrote in message
...
> Recently i ran a scan disk (scheduled to run on reboot) on
> win XP pro. it ran successfully but now it runs everytime
> the pc boots and i can't get into windows. I was able to
> get in using last known good but on a reboot it started
> again and now last known good doesn't work.
> does anyone know how to fix this? Maybe by holding f8 on
> boot and not starting a service? maybe booting to dos and
> copying the registry to another machine to edit?

[john]

i can't even got into safe mode. -- scan disk still wants
to run first.
>-----Original Message-----
>Can you start in Safe mode (F8) and then open the
scandisk program and
>disable the autoscan?
>
>
>"John" > wrote in message
...
>> Recently i ran a scan disk (scheduled to run on reboot)
on
>> win XP pro. it ran successfully but now it runs
everytime
>> the pc boots and i can't get into windows. I was able to
>> get in using last known good but on a reboot it started
>> again and now last known good doesn't work.
>> does anyone know how to fix this? Maybe by holding f8 on
>> boot and not starting a service? maybe booting to dos
and
>> copying the registry to another machine to edit?
>
>
>.
>

[Brin]

hmm sounds a bit worrying!
Can you start in Dos? maybe there is a refrance to this loop in one of the
startup files:
System.INI
Win.INI
boot.INI

are config.sys and autoexec.bat still used?

As you can tell I'm Shooting in the dark here maybe a Microsoft bod has an
answer?


As a last resort, What would happen if you start in dos prompt and Delete
(Or rename) the Scandisk program, maybe it will start as normal and give a
file not found error or somat?

Sorry cant be more help.

Brin



"john" > wrote in message
...
> i can't even got into safe mode. -- scan disk still wants
> to run first.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Can you start in Safe mode (F8) and then open the
> scandisk program and
> >disable the autoscan?
> >
> >
> >"John" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> Recently i ran a scan disk (scheduled to run on reboot)
> on
> >> win XP pro. it ran successfully but now it runs
> everytime
> >> the pc boots and i can't get into windows. I was able to
> >> get in using last known good but on a reboot it started
> >> again and now last known good doesn't work.
> >> does anyone know how to fix this? Maybe by holding f8 on
> >> boot and not starting a service? maybe booting to dos
> and
> >> copying the registry to another machine to edit?
> >
> >
> >.
> >