Scanning for Windows

[ritalaxman]

I am running Windows 98 SE (IE 6) and each time, I boot, I get the following message :

there may be some errors on drive c. Scan for windows.

How do I scan for windows. I have used scandisk, but there does not seem to be any problem. I do not know what to do.

Rita

[nod32_9]

Run scandisk in safe mode and repair if required. Could be a problem with the hard drive.

You can go into MSCONFIG\STARTUP tab and uncheck all items. Reboot and see if the problem goes away.

[GlobalForce]

Hi Rita,

I dug up a few articles on this topic that may help you with your problems, have a look.
aarp.org (http://www.aarp.org/computers-howto/Articles/a2002-07-18-scandisk.html) /bsu.edu (http://www.bsu.edu/ucs/article/0,1370,6327-1987-4756,00.html) /win98 q & a (http://www.computerhope.com/w98qa.htm).

And "just because", take a look at these two pages from experts-exchange here (http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Win98/Q_20834450.html), and here (http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Win98/Q_21068879.html).
Maybe they spark something...

GF

[SKA]

Rital

Maybe u have Athlon CPU & large hard disk eg 40GB ? I face this many times esp w/Seagate hard drives. Running scandisk actually marks sectors as bad
and it slowly becomes worse ie. after 2-3-4 weeks you better change hard disk due so many bad sectors.

So my advice is - backup all your data & get a new drive if you find even
one bad sector with scandisk.

If on other hand scandisk in thorough/surface scans doesn't show any bad sectors & you just face this question each time windows starts it maybe either a trojan/malware that marked a cluster as bad, but scandisk normally does not test bad clusters, so it comes out as clean unless you enable registry to test bad clusters (MSKB Q127055 ).

Or maybe a copy protection scheme has marked a sector as bad on hard
disk(yes some programs do that).

Maybe this helps, maybe it doesn't, Just my 2 cents

SKA

[ritalaxman]

Thanks SKA. I have a PIII original motherboard. I have been having this problem only recently, after I reconfigured drive C. I do not know what to do.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Rita

[ritalaxman]

Dear Sir,

I am not sure how to address u. Thanks for the homework, it helped a lot. Now the problem has been solved. Could u let me know how to access the site from IE ?

Regards,

Rita