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Scandisk Created Numbered Directories
I tried setup /is, looked like it would work, then this
message popped up: "There is a crosslinked file on drive c, Run scandisk /all from setup disk 1 or win98 compact disk to fix the problem. Setup cannot continue." I tried running scandisk but it wants to fix a problem with every file in every directory, which would take several days of pushing reture key and still no guarantee it would work cause it's already been done once. Any other ideas on how to get windows loaded? Thank again, Tim -----Original Message----- "Tim" wrote in message ... Laptop stopped booting to Windows98. It stopped booting with a C: prompt and 0 (zero) directories were shown when typing the dos dir command. Booted to A drive with a start-up disk. Ran scandisk. Scandisk reported a problem with each directory it found, supposedly fixed the problem by creating 2860 numbered directories (Dir00001, Dir00002 ect ect). I can view each of the directories using dos commands. It looks like I could run fdisk and just start over by loading Windows ect, but I'd like to recover several dozen files first, mostly .doc or .txt files. But using dos commands to sort through 2860 directories could take years. So I thought I'd load windows98 first, search for my files, then do fdisk and and load windows again to a fresh disk. The problem is that when I try to load windows98, it runs scandisk first. And scandisk sees those 2860 directories all as problem directories and wants to fix each of them all over again. I tried to allow that on the first two directories but then scandisk reports that the data in the directory is now unrecoverable (although I can view the directory and all files in it using the dos dir and edit commands.) Can anyone suggest a way for me to either get windows98 loaded or another way to search the 2860 numbered directories for some important files before I re-format the C? if you want to recover any of your data...do *not* run fdisk and do *not* format your drive. try reinstalling windows but instead of merely typing "setup" from dos use the context setup /is and it should skip running scan disk now you can sort through the data you can read the .chk files by renaming them to end with .txt . |
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