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 It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function.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

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 ...

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, ...