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by michael34

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The other day I got a service call to install Windows 98 on a computer, Now the install went good but now everytime the computer restarts (shut down Correctly) it wants to run Scan disk because it says the computer was not shut down properly, even tho it was. How can I override it to where it will not want to run Scan Disk everytime?

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by parbo

Possible corruption in your boot sector. try running fdisk /mbr. Windows flags a good or bad shutdown. So if the flag cannot be changed due to corruption it will show as being shutdown incorrectly all the time.

by mirok18

If the system is running win98se there is a patch for this, MSKB Q273017. IDE hard drive cache package fixes this.
windows writes the success to what it thinks is the hard drive, but it is only the drives buffer, so it get lost on shutdown.
You can also change the CacheWriteDelay in the registry to 2000 and this should fix it.

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