John,

Although I am running Win 98SE, I get the same message about my HD but I
have yet to find anything wrong with the HD.

Finally decided to scan and degreg in Safe mode and that has eliminated
the message and sped up both the Scan and defrag.

Worth a try. Good luck.

Lew Russakov
Huntington Beach, CA
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Date:    Mon, 5 Feb 2001 13:39:35 +1000
From:    John Hilton <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Defrag/Hard Disk problem

> When I run windows 95 defrag, it says the disk has errors and to run
> scandisk.
> Then scandisk (with thorough option) cannot find any problems.
> The microsoft knowledge base has an article on this and says to make
> changes to scandisk.ini and run scandisk from native dos,
> however this has the same result.
>
> I have tried a number of freeware scanning and defragging programs,
> but they either dont detect an error or they lockup the system
> (when they reach the suspect spot on the disk) and give the
> dreaded blue screen of death.
>
> I wouldn't mind bad sectors being marked so, but I need to be able to
use
> the rest of the disk without these problems. Any Ideas?
>
> John Hilton
>
> disk info-
> model         : Maxtor 72004AP
> Firmware      : 2A3C0D33
>
System-
> win95a + SP1
> Pentium mmx 250 64mb
> pcchip m577 mobo

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