re: scandisk starts when booting system Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 10:59 pm Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Courtney (23 messages posted) First either load a DOS prompt and go to C:\ or go to My Computer and then to C:\. In Windows, right click on MSDOS.SYS and go to properties and untag the attributes (mainly read only). In DOS, do ATTRIB -R -H -S MSDOS.SYS Then you can use notepad in Windows or EDIT in DOS to edit the file. (Yes, it is a plain text file,unlike the older MSDOS.SYS files which were part of the OS kernel and contained machine code). On Friday, April 18, 2003 at 2:42 pm, robert wrote: > >hi courtney/ >how do u edit your msdos.sys file in the root directory?? > Written in response to: re: scandisk starts when booting system (robert: Friday, April 18, 2003 at 2:42 pm) Responses to this message: re: scandisk starts when booting system (f0xb8: Sunday, May 11, 2003 at 4:41 pm) re: scandisk starts when booting system (ian h.: Sunday, January 25, 2004 at 1:38 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] scandisk starts when booting system (Robert: Wed, Feb 6, 2002, 4:51 pm) re: scandisk starts when booting system (Mike Sommer: Wed, Feb 6, 2002, 7:12 pm) re: scandisk starts when booting system (John Shultz: Tue, Feb 12, 2002, 6:09 pm) re: scandisk starts when booting system (Courtney: Sun, May 19, 2002, 12:54 am) re: scandisk starts when booting system (robert: Fri, Apr 18, 2003, 2:42 pm) re: scandisk starts when booting system (Courtney: Sat, Apr 19, 2003, 10:59 pm) re: scandisk starts when booting system (f0xb8: Sun, May 11, 2003, 4:41 pm) re: scandisk starts when booting system ??? (Dede: Fri, Dec 19, 2003, 8:59 am) re: scandisk starts when booting system (ian h.: Sun, Jan 25, 2004, 1:38 pm) re: scandisk starts when booting system (Courtney: Mon, Jun 28, 2004, 6:27 pm) re: scandisk starts when booting system (Geo D: Thu, Sep 30, 2004, 8:21 am) RE: Scandisk starts when booting system (Windows 98 Second Edition) (Tom Wilson: Thu, Feb 24, 2005, 3:15 pm) RE: Scandisk starts when booting system (Windows 98 Second Edition) (Tom Wilson: Fri, Feb 25, 2005, 6:36 am) re: scandisk starts when booting system (sanjiv: Thu, Dec 2, 2004, 8:46 pm) re: scandisk starts when booting system (somebody: Sat, Nov 4, 2006, 12:01 pm) re: scandisk starts when booting system (somebody: Sat, Nov 4, 2006, 12:04 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum