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I seem to have suffered a major Windows 98 crash. When I boot into windows, even in safe mode, scandisk will run for a little while & then the system locks up. I can't seem to get anywhere with this. Is there a better tool to help with any possible hard drive problems?
Boot into Dos mode either on the hard drive or froma floppy and run scandisk.
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Response Number 2
Name: hh@hh.com Date: July 30, 2001 at 11:37:47 Pacific
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most likely the drive is about dead. i would suggest that if you can get to dos to backup any important files you may have before trying to run a scandisk. write back if you need help w/ dos commands
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