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Scandisk hangs in Dos mode

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by davjoe

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I have a win98 PC with 20GB Hdd, when I started my PC this morning the message said that windows was improperly shutdown. But the evening before I had shut it down properly. Now Scandisk hangs when running in dos mode. It cant seem to get past this.I have had odd disk problems before but a scandisk did not show any errors??. could it be that the disk is failing??, or is there another solution?

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by mightyyoungfai

Yes your hard disk is definitely having a problem.

There is only two error that can give the error, scandisk everytime you open your computer.
1.Your hard disk is expriencing faulty, bad sector. If its still new try to get it back for warranty,if not you got to live with it.
2.Your's windows system files is mess up(corrupt). A quick thing to do is format it completely, and run a fresh installation. Be sure to backup all your document.

by asifsaeed007

My suggestion would be to boot the pc from some (win98 emergency) boot disk and run Scandisk from that disk. This should not hang the pc, if the problem is only logical. SO you should be able to fix the problem. If there is something wrong with the hdd itself(hardware problem), it will hang up even when run from disk.

Then you can connect this hdd as slave on some running pc and try to scandisk from that hdd. If not successfull, the hdd has gone down.

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