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re: scandisk starts when booting system
Sunday, January 25, 2004 at 1:38 pm
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Posted by ian h. (1 messages posted)

courtney-- untagged the attributes and also dwnloaded patch rec by someone else in this forum. scandisk still running every time. other ideas? thanks. ian h.

On Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 10:59 pm, Courtney wrote:
>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).
>
>

Written in response to:: re: scandisk starts when booting system (Courtney: Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 10:59 pm)

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re: scandisk starts when booting system (Courtney: Monday, June 28, 2004 at 6:27 pm)

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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)

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RE: Scandisk starts when booting system (Windows 98 Second Edition) (Tom Wilson: Fri, Feb 25, 2005, 6:36 am)

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