Cannot Invoke Cancel Button in Scandisk Using Keyboard

• Microsoft Windows 95

SYMPTOMS

When you receive one of the following error messages in Scandisk and the error message dialog box has only a Cancel button, you cannot close the error message dialog box by pressing the ESC or ENTER keys:

   ScanDisk could not write to this disk because it is write protected.
   Remove the write-protect tab, reinsert the disk, and then restart
   ScanDisk.

   ScanDisk cannot continue because the disk it was checking was removed
   from the drive. Reinsert the disk, and then restart ScanDisk.

   The compressed volume file for this drive is too small. It must be at
   least 512K in size. This may be caused by an error on your host drive,
   which is the uncompressed drive on which the compressed volume file is
   stored. For information about how to continue, click Help.

CAUSE

In Scandisk, some of the error message dialog boxes that have only a Cancel button do not have the standard keyboard shortcut associated with the button.

RESOLUTION

To close the error message dialog box, do one of the following:

1. Use the mouse pointer to click the CANCEL button.

   -or-

2. Press ALT+F4.