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Disable Scandisk from starting
Name: wai Date: December 6, 2002 at 00:33:13 Pacific OS: WIN XP Pro CPU/Ram: AMD650/256Ram
Comment:
HI, I have 2 harddisk, the primary one was NTFS which run Win XP, the 2nd hd was running Win 98. When everytime I run Win Xp, the scandisk will auto start, is there any way for me to stop it from running scandisk? thks. Another question was, I need to have a dual boot. Primary hd : NTFS Win xp Secondly hd : Master CD-Rom Slave Fat 32 Win 98
Can I know how to put in Win 98 as a second boot up menu in Win XP boot.ini ? Thks again.
Name: Madman Date: December 6, 2002 at 14:01:16 Pacific
Reply:
I don't have my laptop with XP Pro up and running at present, but I know that with win98 and ME you can stop the auto running of scandisk by changing or adding the following to MSDOS.SYS file:
[OPTIONS]
AUTOSCAN = 0
MSDOS.SYS is a read-only file located in the root directory (at least ME and 98).
I use System Commander to handle my multi-boot requirements, as well as some other neat stuff.
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