Unable to scandisk

How much stuff is on the hard drive? Is there enough space left for virtual memory manager to use for swapping? Are you using default settings for virtual memory management? If you have a virtual drive, use it for VMM instead of the drive you're scanning.

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John - Apparently what you are being told by our computer is that you are Low on Disk Space. You knew that.
Try Microsoft kb/article Q191824. This will tell you how to free up some HD space.
On you Links bar click on Microsoft>Support>Knowledge Base.

Have you tried running scandisk from safe mode or from a command prompt?

Close all your TSR's and try running it again.

The fix for this is to make your machine run scandisk at startup. drop me an email and I'll send a registry key along for Win98 - alternatively you can do this: -

To begin, access the \Tools\Mtsutil folder on your Windows 98 CD-ROM. Then, locateand right-click the Defrag.inf file and select the Install command from the shortcut menu. When you do, the install operation adds the special command, Defrag /All to the RunServicesOnce key in the Registry.

Now, restart Windows 98. When you do, Disk Defragmenter will run before anything else loads from the registry, the StartUp folder or the Win.ini file. It will then be able to complete the defragmentation operation uninterrupted.

If you?d like to be able to defragment your hard drive regularly using this technique, you can copy the Defrag.inf file to a folder on your hard drive. That way you can access it quickly and easily the next time you want to perform a defragmentation operation.

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http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q229/1/54.ASP
Err Msg: Your Computer Does Not Have Enough Free Memory to
Defrag the Drive .
The information in this article applies to:
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Works for the Macintosh, versions 2.0, 2.1, 2.5
Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition

SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to run Disk Defragmenter (Defrag.exe) or
ScanDisk (Scandskw.exe), you may receive one of the following
error messages:
Your computer does not have enough free memory to defrag the drive.
Quit one or more programs.
ID# Defrag009

Had same issue, only different this I did was ran Norton antivirus and it found hybris.32 virus 17 times, deleted those uneeded files and after that was able to run scandisk.

This may be a stretch but if it is a Maxtor HDD and was ghosted there is a known timing issue with ghost and Maxtor drives. Get the latest version of Ghost 5.1d or later and ghost again.

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