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Win 95 scandisk error!

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by jrbigsky

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I have a HP computer with win 95 ..
It has the Hp restore disk and a Win 95 companion CD... all boots fine and all... the problem is that whenever i run scandisk either from desktop or from dos at the end of scandisk running I getthe blue screen of death...

that says..

SCANDSKW Caused a general protection fault in module DSKMAINT.DLL at 0008:00002141

I have reinstalled recovery disk and still get same problem

My system is HP pavilion
any ideas out there

I found out that there is a answer from micosoft about this

Take a look at the following article from Microsoft.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US; q135964

(remove spaces from the above URL)

Micosoft says to :
1. Restart computer in MSdos mode...( I did this)

2) Change to the windows.system directory.( I did this too)

3) Type the following line at the MS-DOS prompt
extract:\plus_2cabdskmaint.dll
I did and it didnt workFound I do not have micosoft plus to do this ..then it says to extract the ...Dskmaint.dll...file from the precopy2.cab file on your original win 95 CD or disk...

the problem is that I have a win 95 companion CD and I cant find this fileon it to restore it...
Any ideas

I did use the HP system restore CD and restored all software
the problem still exist
So any help as to how to get this silly file off the companion CD ..I also found there is no setup on the companionCD...how nice

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by ann777

The file is on the Win95 companion cd... in the plus_2.cab folder on the cd.

The win95 "companion CD" is the "Win95 PLUS companion cd." The terms are synonymous. If you have an original genuine cd-- the "plus" is in big red letters.

Contrary to the MS article the cabinet file does not exist on my Win95 original cd, nor the one I purchased later that has "with USB support." It's only on the Companion/Plus! cd.

So instructions:
1) Insert your Companion CD
2) Type: extract d:\plus2_2.cab dskmaint.dll
3) THERE's a period before the cab and a space afterward. that should work for you.

by ann777

Whoops sorry, I placed an extra "2" where I should not have...

extract d:\plus_2.cab dskmaint.dll

by philthegreat

Do you meant that you have re-installed all the software from the restore CD (which imposes all the softwares and it should looks like it is from the vendor)?
If so, it may be your hard disk is the source of the problem. It may have some problems. It cannot be fixed by software. But sometimes, the Norton can fix this kind of disk. you can try it before you send your hard disk for check.

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