Why not secure a UPS for this "critical" DTCMGR workstation?

This should allow for most instances when its absense would result in a
reboot and subsequent scandisk operation.


At 11:25 AM 1999-06-02 -0700, Paul H. Christidis wrote:
>Fellow Listers,
>
>I'm still trying to get our DTCMGR 'station' operational.  I'm down to my
"last"
>obstacle: Scandisk.
>
>When Windows is restarted after an abnormal termination, power outage for
>example, it launches 'Scandisk' to 'validate' certain operational parameters.
>There are a number of prompts, fix errors; surface scan; exit, that MUST be
>answered and thus require human intervention.  While the version of
'Scandisk',
>executable within Windows, can be adjusted for some 'automated' operation,
the
>version that is invoked at startup does not 'abide' by the same settings.
>
>Does anyone know if there is a way to 'customize' Scandisk's behavior at
>startup?
>
>I'd like to 'configure' my DTCMGR 'station' in such a way that after the
power
>is restored it will 'progress' beyond the Scandisk step, invoke the DTCMGR
>software and be available for downloading the DTC configurations.
>
>Regards
>Paul H. Christidis
>
>
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