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Invalid long filename entry on drive???

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Name: Trent
Date: February 22, 2002 at 11:30:14 Pacific
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I get a blue screen everytime I start Win98 and I can't do anything. I run scandisk from DOS and it tells me that ScanDisk found an invalid long filename entry on drive and did not fix it. Then it says to run Windows Scandisk to fix. Well, I can't run win scandisk, cause I can't start windows. I typed scandisk at c prompt and ran it that way, but it says the same thing and I don't know what to do? Please help!



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Response Number 1
Name: Niteman
Date: February 22, 2002 at 13:54:55 Pacific
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Maybe you can run scandisk for windows in SafeMode.


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Response Number 2
Name: Trent
Date: February 22, 2002 at 16:18:27 Pacific
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I did... still told me it couldn't fix...


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Response Number 3
Name: Krystyna
Date: February 22, 2002 at 21:55:06 Pacific
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Is the name of the file identified anywhere in Scandisk ?
If yes, start in Safe Mode, and open Windows Explorer, and scroll to the file and delete it.


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Response Number 4
Name: Trent
Date: February 23, 2002 at 11:51:30 Pacific
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The file is not named anywhere... I absolutely can not start windows... even in safe mode... it just gives me a blue screen error...


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Response Number 5
Name: Krystyna
Date: February 23, 2002 at 16:53:38 Pacific
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What is the exact error message on the blue screen at startup ?


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Response Number 6
Name: Trent
Date: February 24, 2002 at 10:49:11 Pacific
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Krystyna,
I tried to e-mail you, but it didn't work.

The blue screen error I keep getting as Win98 loads is:

"A fatal exception OE has occured at 015F:BFF7F327"

I also have noticed that when the pc is booting through DOS, it says:

"Hard Disk 0 Installed WDC AC32500H"

I can't get Windows to start at all. Not even in Safe Mode. I run scandisk and it does not tell me the specific filename.


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Response Number 7
Name: roy
Date: June 14, 2002 at 20:59:48 Pacific
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I'm getting the same error on my machine. Scandisk in windows is running ok, but not finding the supposed error at all.. I'm stuck at this point.


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