Have you booted to a command prompt and run
scandisk there? This should clean up the drive.
Even if Windows insists on running it again,
(because the "dirty" flag is set), it should run right through.

                                          Rick Glazier

From: "Kent N. Jacobson"
> Have a problem with Scandisk, running 98 SE.

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