From:	"Bill Marcum" <bmarcum AT iglou DOT com>
Organization:	Llewellyn's Ming Vase Shuffleboard League
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Sat, 1 Sep 2001 18:51:32 +0400
Subject:	Re: Command Error
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On 1 Sep 01, at 1:57, . wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I use MS-DOS 6.2. I have two hard disk (drive C and D:). I have a 133 MHz.
> processor with 32MB RAM.
> 
> Since last week I have noticed that Scandisk has been taking incredibly long
> to scan my D: drive. When I try to exit Scandisk at the end of the scan I
> get a message which states:
> 
> "Unable to load command interpreter".
> 
> This only happens when I scan the D: drive. I also notice that there is
> sometimes a thirty seconds delay when I try to save on this drive.
> 
> Can anyone hazard a guess as to what my problem is and how I can correct it.
> 
How big is your D drive?  Have you ever defragged it?  When you run 
Scandisk, do you do the surface scan? Does Scandisk show any errors 
before you exit?  Try booting the system with F5 (press F5 as soon as 
it says "Starting MS-DOS") and then run Scandisk.

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