re: Help! Scandisk woes and other problems.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at 5:50 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by JasperT2
(28 messages posted)
If 95 is on the PC and the Win.com is missing you can install 98/98se over top. From
the 98 source use the setup.exe but use the following syntax: "Setup.exe /IM /ID
/IS /IQ" to skip the scandisk and other system checks during the install. (setup.exe
/? for a list of options) If the system fails the scandisk consistently I would
suspect a bad sector (physical damage) on the disk. If you do get 98 to load, I would
recommed a full scandisk / surface scan immediately after the install and before
loading more software on the disk.
On Monday, March 13, 2006 at 10:19 pm, Erin wrote:
>Ok, here is my problem. 2 computers have come to me in the past 6 months. Both
>were missing win.com. I fixed the one, but the other is a bit more tricky. I am
>trying to just re-install Windows 95, and then re-upgrading it with Windows 98,
but
>ScanDisk will not finish running. It says: "Windows 95 Discussion Forum" "ScanDisk
>encounter a data error while reading the FAT entry for cluster 2048288. This error
>prevents ScanDisk from fixing this drive."
>What can I do? Is there anything I can do. I am trying not to reformat. I was
>advised to reformat the Dell, and I didn't and fixed it in a different way. This
>is a Panasonic laptop.
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