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Scandisk hangs up, other progs too
Name: Christoph Gigler Date: February 19, 2003 at 10:29:35 Pacific OS: Windows 98 SE CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon XP/1024 MB DDR
Comment:
I got a big prob. The problem started with Scandisk. Whenever i tried to run it, I either got a black screen or an error message with a failure in user.exe. After that I couldn't even start the Explorer without resulting in an error in "explorer.exe". So Crtl+Alt+Del got my final solution as the switch off function resulted in an shell32.dll - failure.
Well I decided to format my HDD (partition C:) and reinstall Win 98 SE.
Said and done, but.....the problems remain.
Some Progs even hang up after a time. Winamp can`t remember the last skin it had for example, to name the small problems too.
If anyone out there can help me, I would appreciate to receive a mail from these wise person....... ;)
Name: Bobthearch Date: February 19, 2003 at 10:56:21 Pacific
Reply:
Thought it might be a virus. But if you have re-installed Windows form scratch on a freshly formatted hard drive, that seems unlikely. Unless you re-installed the virus along with all of your other software...
It could be a bad hard drive...
Have you tried to run scandisk from DOS?
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Response Number 2
Name: ding Date: February 19, 2003 at 11:49:08 Pacific
Reply:
create a startup disk this way: go to my computer control panel add/remove software the tab Startup disk and follow the instructions
put this disk in the floppydrive and restart
when the dos prompt appears, type:
scandisk c: /surface /autofix /nosummary /nosave and the press enter
this will examine and repair your disk (mind: there are 5 spaces in the command line, one before the c, and one before every /)
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Response Number 3
Name: papa2 Date: February 19, 2003 at 12:17:34 Pacific
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