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 It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function.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 ...

Im having trouble connecting to the administrative share on a XP SP3 client for patching purposes. This is after the machine was shutdown incorrectly and scandisk ran and fixed some filesystem errors.

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 ...

My computer refuses to shut down properly. It is a 350 MHz Pentium II running Windows 98. Whenever you select Shut Down from the Start menu, it will just go into Restart automatically instead of ...

QUESTION: When I run scandisk in Windows 98, my 300 MHz PC freezes immediately. The window shows scandisk as "checking file allocation tables....". The little disk icon on the top left hand corner is ...

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 ...