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Directories are placed on drive, I am not sure how
I moved my data to a 2nd drive in my computer. I removed
a memory module from my computer that appears to be bad. This left 2 other modules in the computer, in the appropriate slot. When I went to rebuild my computer with win98 scandisk ran. It stated it found problems and was checking directories with the name DIR000xx (where xx is some number), the files inside the directories names were written in machine language. I cannot scan the drive because scandisk wants me to check all these directories (97 of them) and the files inside. I cannot seem to delete these directories. Why does this happen and what can I do? Lost in scandisk |
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Directories are placed on drive, I am not sure how
The directoried were created by Scandisk previously, from directories that were
damaged or otherwise had errors as far as Scandisk was concerned. They can be deleted from DOS, using the Deltree command. Type: Deltree /? for info on how to use it. I suggest you check your hard drive using the drive manufacturer's utilities, prior to reinstalling the operating system, if Scandisk was finding whole directories had errors. Download the diagnostics for your brand drive, and check the drive integrity. If you do not know the brand, download Seagate SeaTools. After it is downloaded, double-click it, and it will create a bootable floppy disk with the diagnostic program on it. Then boot your problem computer using the bootable floppy, and choose the Generic Long test. It will create a report that you can read from within the program when the tests are complete, and it is also saved as a text file on the floppy disk. Alternately, you can use the evaluation version of Ontrack Data Advisor, which is what SeaTools is based upon. They both are created the same way. Seagate SeaTools: http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/B7a.html Error codes: http://www.seagate.com/support/npf/s...ror_index.html Data Advisor: http://www.ontrack.com/freesoftware/#dataadvisor Installation instructions for both: http://www.ontrack.com/dataadvisor/downloadinfo.asp Hard drive diagnostics by brand: OnTrack Data Advisor: http://www.ontrack.com/freesoftware/#dataadvisor IBM/Hitachi Drive Fitness Test: http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools: http://support.wdc.com/download/ Quantum/Maxtor PowerMax: http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm Seagate SeaTools: http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "ScanDirectories" wrote in message ... I moved my data to a 2nd drive in my computer. I removed a memory module from my computer that appears to be bad. This left 2 other modules in the computer, in the appropriate slot. When I went to rebuild my computer with win98 scandisk ran. It stated it found problems and was checking directories with the name DIR000xx (where xx is some number), the files inside the directories names were written in machine language. I cannot scan the drive because scandisk wants me to check all these directories (97 of them) and the files inside. I cannot seem to delete these directories. Why does this happen and what can I do? Lost in scandisk |
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