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re: Longname file detected in scandisk Monday, August 4, 2008 at 10:36 am Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) I never seen that problem, but think I would try running scandisk from a boot floppy to fixall. The link shows how. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/199557/en-us [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Longname file detected in scandisk Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 1:45 pm Posted by Ed (741 messages posted) You can download a program that will create a bootable Windows ME floppy disk. Get it from this link: http://www.bootdisk.com/ Run the program, with a blank floppy disk in your floppy drive slot. The program will erase any data on the floppy disk, and make it bootable. You can then use it to start your computer: put it in the floppy disk slot and start the computer. The computer should then start up and take you to the A: prompt. From there you can access the files on your C: drive (the hard disk). Try running Scandisk with the following options (type each line, then press the ENTER key; but make sure you leave a space before each slash character): C: CD \WINDOWS\COMMAND SCANDISK C: /AUTOFIX /NOSAVE /NOSUMMARY /SURFACE For a summary of Scandisk's options type this: SCANDISK /? Ed On Monday, August 4, 2008 at 10:36 am, Steve wrote: >I never seen that problem, but think I would try running scandisk from a boot floppy >to fixall. The link shows how. >http://support.microsoft.com/kb/199557/en-us [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum