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by kaysay

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I have installed a new hard drive, 30 GB, and loaded Win98se. When running scandisk it spontaneously reboots when it is checking the 44,xxx clusters on the hard drive. It was doing this with my old hard drive which then developed bad sectors. I ran a diagnostic program which passed the motherboard and the cpu and memory, etc. It also passed the hard drive.

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by opatzg9

have you dowbloaded and updated the latest bios drivers for your motherboard? If not look at some of the other questions out here, you'll see a list of software sites to getthe information without opening the case. Then go to the manufacturer or motherboards.com to get your updates and then try again. I haven't heard of the scandisk reboot at 44,xxx before but maybe it's a limitation of scandisk and you need anewer version from microsoft.
Good luck

by kaysay

Thanks for the helpful comments. I hadn't updated my bios, but I got a new powersupply and the rebooting has stopped.

by qballrail

Firstly, I never recommend Windows Scandisk. If you can obtain a copy of Norton Utilities, borrow it or just buy the current version, you would be much better off. The Disk Doctor works much better as well as the rest of the suite. You can run Utilities from the disc without installing but if you choose to install, select Custom and don't install System Doctor. Everything else, Speed Disk, Disk Doctor and WinDoctor are all very powerful programs.

Anyway, try running that instead of Windows Scandisk. Hope this helps! :)

by qballrail

Question for you: Does your system reboot like this in other situations or is it JUST when running scandisk? Reason for my question is that if you have 2 different brand hard drives, such as Maxtor and Western Digital, I've seen similar situationsarise. Seems some just don't play well together, depending on how you have them in the chain. I found that the WD drives do not like to be slaved to the Maxtor drives.
Just a thought.

by kaysay

It was rebooting randomly, and I only had one hard drive installed as Primary Master

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