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re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?'
Thursday, September 16, 2004 at 2:38 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Spike01
(328 messages posted)
Start From the MSDOS PROMPT. NOT a Floppy.
While starting the P.C., hold down the CTRL key.
An Options Window should pop-up giving you options
of how Windows could start.
Choose: "MSDOS PROMPT only".
From C:\ prompt Type:
Scandisk C: /SURFACE /AUTOFIX
If it does not open, type:
CD Windows\Command
then type the Scandisk again.
Works much better than Windows Scandskw.exe
at fixing problems.
On Thursday, September 16, 2004 at 12:50 pm, nicholas barlow wrote:
>when switching on computer it loads up so far then a message saying "one or more
>of your disk drives may have developed bad sectors press any key to run scan disk
>with surface anaylsis on these drives...."
>then when l press any key it goes onto scan disk, it gets to 17% pauses and then
>says "scan disk encountered a data error while reading cluster 5238. scan disk will
>try to continue past this error when scan disk offers you to perform a surface scan
>on this drive choose yes"it remains at 17% still, even when trying to start in safe
>mode it still says the same thing,
>could anyone give me some advice or help
>would be really grateful
>thanks
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