Scandisk Freeze

[Shamjam]

I hope someone here can help or steer me in the right direction.
I am running Win98. When I run Scandisk, it will freeze anywhere between 35,000 and 75,000. This has been happening for about the last month.
It does not have a virus, and doesn't use Pheonix BIOS and yes, I do know how to turn everything off that is running in the background. It doesn't stop and restart. It freezes and I have to turn the machine off. Even Ctrl+Alt+delete won't get me out of it. It will finish the scan from DOS with no errors found.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Sham

[jay015]

Have you tried running scandisk in safe mode? There is also an issue with Mcafee 5.1 causing this problem.

[MikeTurley]

Try turning off automatic repairs.

[charlescpu]

Just try to let ScanDisk complete his job...let the computer work for about 1 night and this should be okay.

I had a similar problem one time.

Good Luck

[mpeton]

Try it in Dos mode, then try it again in Windows. Probably has an error it's having a hard time fixing. I've had this before as well.

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[sync]

Turn on view all files and folders, find the Applog folder I believe this is in the windows folder Delete it.Reboot windows will recreate the folder on boot run scandisk all should be fine now. There is a MS Knowledge base article on this.

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[Shamjam]

Thank you for all of your replies.

Sync's suggestion to delete the Applog folder did the trick. Thanks Sync!

Shamjam