From: "Bill Marcum" 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 In-reply-to: <200109010215.f812FFF06790@xserv02.cybervale.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v3.12a) Message-Id: Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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.