[Mogul Mouse]

after an electrical storm y'day where we lost power twice, my computer
refuses to shut down or even sleep. I was checking for errors with Norton
when it lost power the second time. Running Disk Doctor, I can only get part
way through and then I get a message about something controllling the
harddrive and in order to repair I need to restart computer. There is
something mentioned of security regulators.

[j9]

scandisk and defrag would be a good place to start....

"Mogul Mouse" <Mogul Mouse@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> after an electrical storm y'day where we lost power twice, my computer
> refuses to shut down or even sleep. I was checking for errors with Norton
> when it lost power the second time. Running Disk Doctor, I can only get
> part
> way through and then I get a message about something controllling the
> harddrive and in order to repair I need to restart computer. There is
> something mentioned of security regulators.

[brianb]

> scandisk and defrag would be a good place to start....

I would recommend doing this in safe mode.
Press F8 on startup and select safe mode option.

[BBUNNY]

"Mogul Mouse" <Mogul Mouse@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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| after an electrical storm y'day where we lost power twice, my computer
| refuses to shut down or even sleep. I was checking for errors with
Norton
| when it lost power the second time. Running Disk Doctor, I can only
get part
| way through and then I get a message about something controllling the
| harddrive and in order to repair I need to restart computer. There is
| something mentioned of security regulators.

__Invest in a quality UPS backup.__ Then run ...sfc /scannow...chkdsk
/r...
....Internet options>delete cookies & delete files...disk cleanup...
In the case of power outages, it would be hard to say what or how many
files would be corrupted.