Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2003. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. Q. What happened to one ...

I tried to run scandisk and i restarted the computer so that it could run, but i keep getting an "Unable to open drive for direct access" message. Now i can neither run scandisk nor can i restart my ...

ANSWER: There are a few reasons that come to mind, a virus or damaged files and folder information would be where to start. First, be sure you don't have a virus. Microsoft notes that this issue can ...

get a message that there may be a problem with one or more drives, and when I hit the {Enter} key, Scandisk runs (DOS version). I know from experience that the only way to stop it is to let it finish, ...

I had a few hard locks and wanted to run scandisk on my boot drive. Upon reboot, scandisk starts to load normally but then it spits out "cannot open volume for direct access." ...

Q. My problem is that my PC developed problems with the Windows ScanDisk repair software after I attempted to fix another problem using Norton AntiVirus 2003. It started when I suspected I had a virus ...

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