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I originally had a 4.00gb HD as my main C:\ drive (with call of my
system files on it)....the drive was also partitioned to create 3
drives...Drives C:\, E:\, F:\. Over time it has out grown the small
size and I decided to install a new drive. I also have a 2ndary drive
that I have data files on. Before I installed the new drive I did
back up my C:\, E:\, F:\ drives (to the 2ndary drive and also to
CD's). After I originally installed the new drive (also creating 3
partitions as the original had) I was able to re-install
Windows98....no problems. Then I decided to go ahead and restore the
backup that I had made. When I rebooted I had errors that some files
were missing. Thinking that I had made some mistake when I tried to
restore the data I decided to start from scratch and reformat...and
reinstall Windows.

The problem that I am running into now is that while trying to install
Win98 the 2nd time I am getting an error message that one of my new
partitioned drives has errors and it will begin to perform a surface
scan. It has detected some errors and since Windows98 is not already
installed I don't have the option of selecting 'automatically fix
errors' and have to sit there and click 'fix it' each time it finds an
error. And it is getting old ! I have tried several times to
re-install Win98 and I am getting the same error each time.

Any ideas on how I can correct this and/or get the surface to
automatically fix any errors since I don't have Win98 installed ?

Thanks in advance for your help !!

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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Gato" wrote in message
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I originally had a 4.00gb HD as my main C:\ drive (with call of my
system files on it)....the drive was also partitioned to create 3
drives...Drives C:\, E:\, F:\. Over time it has out grown the small
size and I decided to install a new drive. I also have a 2ndary drive
that I have data files on. Before I installed the new drive I did
back up my C:\, E:\, F:\ drives (to the 2ndary drive and also to
CD's). After I originally installed the new drive (also creating 3
partitions as the original had) I was able to re-install
Windows98....no problems. Then I decided to go ahead and restore the
backup that I had made. When I rebooted I had errors that some files
were missing. Thinking that I had made some mistake when I tried to
restore the data I decided to start from scratch and reformat...and
reinstall Windows.

The problem that I am running into now is that while trying to install
Win98 the 2nd time I am getting an error message that one of my new
partitioned drives has errors and it will begin to perform a surface
scan. It has detected some errors and since Windows98 is not already
installed I don't have the option of selecting 'automatically fix
errors' and have to sit there and click 'fix it' each time it finds an
error. And it is getting old ! I have tried several times to
re-install Win98 and I am getting the same error each time.

Any ideas on how I can correct this and/or get the surface to
automatically fix any errors since I don't have Win98 installed ?

Thanks in advance for your help !!