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scan disk error (write protected??)
Name: bummed29 Date: March 25, 2005 at 13:44:05 Pacific OS: win me CPU/Ram: intelceleron
Comment:
Hello I am new to this forum and very glad to have found you! Im having several issues but right now the most important one is Defrag and scan disk.. I cannot defrag b.c. it says disk contains errors / run scan disk. okay run scan disk in norm. mode it restarts over, over. Run it in safe mode, it says ""scan disk could not write to this disk because it is write protected .. remove or move the write protected tab and reinsert the disk. ??????? I dont have any floppy or cd's NOTHING in the drive! what can I possibly have wrong?? Hope you can help!
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: March 25, 2005 at 14:09:23 Pacific
Reply:
Hi,
Boot in DOS [f8 from cold start] and run scandisk there.
M2
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
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Response Number 2
Name: jboy Date: March 25, 2005 at 15:04:32 Pacific
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That may not be possible without a bootdisk - booting to DOS is not normally available in WinME
Braccae tuae aperiuntur
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Response Number 3
Name: bummed29 Date: March 25, 2005 at 16:02:17 Pacific
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Ive done this some time ago and I think I also had to do something called a gwscan but its been so long I have forgotten how. care to kinda walk me through it? thanks
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Response Number 4
Name: jboy Date: March 25, 2005 at 16:43:14 Pacific
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Create the bootdisk by executing the downloaded file - I like the one without the RAM drive.
Boot the computer with the floppy - might need to change the boot order in the BIOS to ensure that the floppy drive is the first boot device.
Enter
scandisk c:
.. and see what it finds. Hopefully any errors will be identified and repaired.
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