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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...