Meher,

   Here is what I sent to Kent Jacobson with some additional info.  

   A trick I use with Windows 98 after a blue screen is to let it boot
up normally then I would let it do a proper shut down.  I would then
power up and press the F8 key and select the command prompt to boot to.
I would then run scandisk at the DOS prompt.  (Note:  You need the
following in the config.sys for scandisk to run in DOS:
"C:\windows\himem.sys".)  The command I would run in the DOS prompt for
this is as follows: "scandisk /all /autofix /nosummary /nosave".  After
that I would then boot the system normally and run scandisk and defrag
and everything was working fine.

   I hope that this is of help to get your system working again. 

         Lonnie



-----Original Message-----
From: Meher Shroff [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 8:25 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [PCSOFT] Same Problem of Scan Disk - endless cycling / restarts


I have the exact same problem as described by Kent Jacobson in his
message.

As suggested by someone on this list I went to DOS prompt and typed
scandisk C:\ but it promptly jumps back to Windows and starts the same
old scan disk in Windows.

How can I get it to scandisk in DOS?

Thank you.

Meher Shroff

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