Nicholas, just had a similar problem myself, only my OS is XP. I had a
report from Norton Disk Doctor about some bad clusters. They affected the
file Bootsect.dat causing the computer to take about 4 minutes to boot up.
Chkdsk was run with the /f switch to repair the problem clusters. It worked.
I am not sure if Chkdsk can be run with Windows 98. Maybe someone else can
verify this.
Good luck,

Alan Priol.




Scandisk encountered a data error reading while reading  the FAT entry for
cluster 241635

and hence scandisk cannot fix the drive.

What is the best next step to take bearing in mind I have some data I want
to recover if possible ? Does this sound like a virus or the hard drive
failing or both ?

Thanks in advance for any help

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