I've just built a Win98/Linux box from scratch, and in preparing to install Mandrake Linux, rebooted into DOS to run scandisk before partitioning my hd. I get the following message: There is not enough free conventional memory to check a disk. You may need to remark (REM) some device drivers from your CONFIG.SYS file. Or, in your CONFIG.SYS file, you may need to load the EMM386.exe driver to load your other device drivers into the Upper Memory Blocks using DEVICEHIGH= statements. What's this all about? Scandisk runs in Windows. Although I'm a grizzled Linux veteran, I freely admit to being a DOS neophyte. This is the system, more or less: Win98 2nd Ed. SOYO SY-6BA+ III PIII 450 IBM 14.4 GB DTTA-371440 one 128 MB DIMM Creative Graphic Blaster Riva TNT 16 MB Creative Sound Blaster Live! Value Toshiba SD-M1212 6X-DVD-ROM Hollywood Plus DVD/MPEG-3 Decoder Card Here's my config.sys: device=C:\WINDOWS\himem.sys DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.exe DEVICE=C:\CDPRO\VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:MSCD001 Thanks.

Hi, To free more conventional memory try to modify your Config.sys file as follows: dos=high,umb device=C:\WINDOWS\himem.sys DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.exe ram DEVICEhigh=C:\CDPRO\VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:MSCD001 Then in Autoexec.bat file add LH modificator before any TSR program. For example: LH Keyb.com And after all why you need to run Scandisk in DOS if you can do that from Windows? Good luck, Igor M

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it happens to me to but scandisk does not run after imprpoer shutdown how can i get it to ?

The suggested config.sys is not quite right. You must run the C:\windows\himem.sys before attempting to load anything high. It is usually the first line in the config.sys