Recurring Scandisk Errors

Win98se

I run scandisk regularly. Even more so now that it is repeatedly
finding the same errors in the master boot records of C, D & E..

The effect of these errors results in incorect reporting of the
remaining space on those drives.

Repairs are made & all is well for a short while, but then the errors
reappear.

It's more of a nuisance than anything else, i.e. I was just erroneously
informed that C:\ was out of space. Also, because I use a second HD
for backup, I will occasionally get messages during backup telling me
D:\ has run out of space. Thus, my data can't be backed up until I fix
the errors.

Anybody got a clue how I can better deal with this?.

tia

blue

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shut down incorrectly and correcting that problem.

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"vegeddabowdit" wrote in message
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Win98se

I run scandisk regularly. Even more so now that it is repeatedly
finding the same errors in the master boot records of C, D & E..

The effect of these errors results in incorect reporting of the
remaining space on those drives.

Repairs are made & all is well for a short while, but then the errors
reappear.

It's more of a nuisance than anything else, i.e. I was just erroneously
informed that C:\ was out of space. Also, because I use a second HD
for backup, I will occasionally get messages during backup telling me
D:\ has run out of space. Thus, my data can't be backed up until I fix
the errors.

Anybody got a clue how I can better deal with this?.

tia

blue

"Richard G. Harper" wrote in message
...
The way to deal with those errors is to find out why your computer is
being
shut down incorrectly and correcting that problem.

I never said my computer is being shut down.

As I stated, when I run scandisk it reports the errors & I allow them to
be fixed.

Oddly, if I run scandisk again immediately after the repairs are made,
it often still reports the errors, so I must reboot for the proper drive
sizes to be reflected & for the errors to disappear when scandisk is run
again. But after time scandisk again begins to report the same type of
errors & the process must be repeated.

blue