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can't get past "Scan Disk"
I really hope someone can help me. My OS is Win98. It
freezes continually causing me to shut down manually. When I reboot it give the message...Windows was not shut down properly...etc. must run Scan Disk. The Scan Disk takes aprox. 3hrs to run then stops and says "Cannot write to Disk C", that there is a problem with Fat32. I used to be able to bypass the Scan disk but it would run really slow and then freeze up, and the process would start over. I have tried to install on top of existing intallation but I get the error that it cannot write to disk C. I understand that I will probably have to reformat, but I do not have anything backed up and I don't want to loose all the programs that are on the PC currently. Any ideas anyone? Thanks in advance, Sarah |
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How to Install Windows 98 Into a New Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=193902 If you get an error message about the PC already having a system, that probably means you are using an OEM CD that came with the PC. If this happens: You should install the system from DOS--if you need help on this, see http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/w98_restore.html , W98 RESTORE DISK AND INSTALLATION PROCEDURES. When you are ready to start, boot with the floppy start up disk and W98 CD inserted. At the A: prompt, type: C: and hit enter. At the C: prompt, type: CD Windows and hit enter. Rename the win.com and winver.exe files by typing: ren win.com win.old and hit enter. Do the same for Winver.exe. Refer to the installation procedures for the next installation step and be sure to work in the procedures listed in the top article above. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Sarah" wrote in message ... I really hope someone can help me. My OS is Win98. It freezes continually causing me to shut down manually. When I reboot it give the message...Windows was not shut down properly...etc. must run Scan Disk. The Scan Disk takes aprox. 3hrs to run then stops and says "Cannot write to Disk C", that there is a problem with Fat32. I used to be able to bypass the Scan disk but it would run really slow and then freeze up, and the process would start over. I have tried to install on top of existing intallation but I get the error that it cannot write to disk C. I understand that I will probably have to reformat, but I do not have anything backed up and I don't want to loose all the programs that are on the PC currently. Any ideas anyone? Thanks in advance, Sarah |
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"Sarah" wrote in message
... I really hope someone can help me. My OS is Win98. It freezes continually causing me to shut down manually. When I reboot it give the message...Windows was not shut down properly...etc. must run Scan Disk. The Scan Disk takes aprox. 3hrs to run then stops and says "Cannot write to Disk C", that there is a problem with Fat32. I used to be able to bypass the Scan disk but it would run really slow and then freeze up, and the process would start over. I have tried to install on top of existing intallation but I get the error that it cannot write to disk C. I understand that I will probably have to reformat, but I do not have anything backed up and I don't want to loose all the programs that are on the PC currently. Any ideas Quick & dirty solution: 1. Buy a new hard drive, faster and perhaps bigger than your present C: Add the new drive to your PC with FDISK give it one DOS primary partition (and if yoou want add logical drives in the Ext DOS partition.) The DOS partition will show up as drive D: regardless (because the OS reads DOS primaries first and expects there to be only one, your C 1b. FORMAT D: and format other drives on the new drive. 2. Beforehand go to www.xxcopy.com and save their instructions for "cloning" drives. Using XXCOPY, copy everything on your old C: to your new D: 3. Then interchange old and new drives (setting jumpers appropriately if needed). If XXCOPY was perfect with no errors, your new C: has everything on the old C: including your installed apps. If XXCOPY reported any failures to copy files (likely among 1000 or 2000 files) you may be able to boot Windows OK and copy them over. Your old C: is now D: and you do not need it to be DOS Primary. So verify that absolutely everything was copied OK to the new C: then FDISK the old drive to remove the DOS Primary partition, make a new Ext DOS partition and FORMAT it. Your drive letters are then back to normal, first C: and any others on the new drive, then in sequence all logical drives on the old drive. (And the old drive has been cleaned and reFORMATted -- so if it behaves OK keep it, and if it malfunctions throw it away.) -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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