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June 9, 2000 at 04:54 AM
redshift

Win98 – Phantom Bad Sectors

by redshift . Updated 25 years, 12 months ago

I ghosted a Win98 2gig partition to a 6gig HDD and stuck it into a different PC. It seemed to run fine as I loaded drivers and went through several reboots. Then, suddenly, I’m loading the 3c905b drivers for the 3c905b NIC, and I get a blue screensaying that it can’t write to C:, and freezes. On reboot,it comes up and says that there may be a bad sector on C and wants to run scandisk. Scandisk, Norton Disk Doctor, Troubleshooter, and Spinrite find no problems with the HDD. The system actsfine except for this error on bootup that occurs just after Win.exe is executed. Is there some sort of flag that I can delete that will prevent this from happening if there in nothing wrong with the HDD?

I’ve repeated the ghost-load drivers-failprocess twice with the same results – it crashes on loading the 3c905b drivers. Although I removed the drivers, and even the NIC, it still gives me the error.

thanx!

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