I am forwarding this reply to both the performance group you replied to, and the
thread in win98.gen_discussion, where all the other respondents are posting and
waiting to hear from you.

What were the exact errors scandisk found? I would be concerned about having to
make two undo floppies in one scandisk session. If it was a file system problem,
you may be OK, but if there is an underlying issue with the disk surface, you may
need to consider replacing the drive soon.

Without running Scandisk again, look for a file in the root of the C:\ drive named
scandisk.log
C:\scandisk.log

If found, open it with Notepad, and if it contains any info about the last Scandisk
run and the errors found, copy/paste the text from the log into a reply to this
post.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Windows, A+
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"SomeOne" wrote in message
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1. Thank-your for the comeback.

2. I was trying to start DOS from the "sign-off" menu. That got me noplace

3. When I started in SAFE mode at boot, the problem remained.

4. When I started SAFE mode a second time, I chose "Command Prompt".

5. It started and I ran ScanDisk. While I elected to create recovery discs
while in scan disk; it took two floppies to complete the ScanDisk.

6. Following successful completion of ScanDisk, I re-booted in regular
Win98SE mode and invoked ScanDisk again. This time it worked. If found
additional errors, corrected them.

7. I then defragged. That took better than an hour. But then again, I
only have 199KB memory with a processor that I turtle could outrun.

8. Will be running these one a week. I use the machine for subscription
service and the rest of the time I let BOINC have it. Once a week I update
the virus listing, download subscription mail and then it is back to BOINC..

9. I thank-you for the comeback and assistance. Sorry for the individual
posting. Will delve further into posting protocol to try and avoid in the
future.

10. Someone wanted to know why I used Norton's.

a. It was on the machine when I got it.

b. It is a real pain to get it off the system.

c. I have something that works now (the Norton's)

d. Have no idea what to replace it with on this relic

e. As I said, it works now and like my grandfather used to tell me; "If
It Ain't Broke, Don\t Fix It"

11. Why don't I dump the machine - hey, it is faster than 5 X 8 files
cards, a pencil and eraser. (I do have 4 machines on line)

12. Again, thanks for putting up with me. As I said, "Starting In SAFE
Mode and selecting Command Prompt Only solved the problem!!!

SomeOne