cannot operate scandisk or defrag

the computer works reasonably well, but after an illegal shutdown, scandisk will not complete its run; defrag will not even start

 

Cleanup some

Do this:

Configure CleanMgr to max settings
Go to Start-Run and type

cleanmgr /sageset:1
The above need only be ran once (these settings will be remembered as the default until another sageset is ran).

It will present a menu select all except compress, then

Go to Start-Run and type

cleanmgr /sagerun:1
As long as /sageset above has been ran on this computer from now on the /sagerun is the only thing that needs to run.

Then start-run
type

chkdsk /r

it will tell you it will do it at next boot

so shutdown-reboot

Then do a defrag when back up!

Mike