Scandisk-long filename error

Upon boot upon the pc does a scan and give this message " The dorectory tree
of this drive is too deep or too many file exist for ScanDisk to exam tgis
drive. Scan Disk for Windows may be able to work around this problem.

So upon using the Acc/Sys tools/ScanDisk it give this error- SD unable to
correct an error on C; because there is a file or folder name
"average$201.5.....nav2005_microdefsb....symalllan guage_livetri,zip" in the
top level folder of this drive. To repair this error,

It looks as if you or an intruder has saved a zip file that has such a long
name that it exceeds the file name size in Win 98.

I would try a search using *.zip to identify it, and then either delete it
from within Windows or boot up press the F8 key to bring up the boot menu,
choose the command prompt option, and delete it from there by using the del
command.

You can find out what the switches are for the command by entering del /? at
the command prompt.

Eric,
PC Buyer Beware!
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/


"christina" wrote:

Upon boot upon the pc does a scan and give this message " The dorectory tree
of this drive is too deep or too many file exist for ScanDisk to exam tgis
drive. Scan Disk for Windows may be able to work around this problem.

So upon using the Acc/Sys tools/ScanDisk it give this error- SD unable to
correct an error on C; because there is a file or folder name
"average$201.5.....nav2005_microdefsb....symalllan guage_livetri,zip" in the
top level folder of this drive. To repair this error,

It is usually more advisable to rename a file in such cases, rather than
delete it. Write down the original name for reference, and even move the
file to a more convenient location until you've determined for sure that
it's OK to delete.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"Eric" wrote in message
...
It looks as if you or an intruder has saved a zip file that has such a
long
name that it exceeds the file name size in Win 98.

I would try a search using *.zip to identify it, and then either delete it
from within Windows or boot up press the F8 key to bring up the boot menu,
choose the command prompt option, and delete it from there by using the
del
command.

You can find out what the switches are for the command by entering del /?
at
the command prompt.

Eric,
PC Buyer Beware!
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/


"christina" wrote:

Upon boot upon the pc does a scan and give this message " The dorectory
tree
of this drive is too deep or too many file exist for ScanDisk to exam
tgis
drive. Scan Disk for Windows may be able to work around this problem.

So upon using the Acc/Sys tools/ScanDisk it give this error- SD unable
to
correct an error on C; because there is a file or folder name
"average$201.5.....nav2005_microdefsb....symalllan guage_livetri,zip" in
the
top level folder of this drive. To repair this error,