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by smoothtlknospam

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Hello, My Dell 933 Win98SE (OS used most) dual boot w/ Win2000 using 2000 Comander, 128Rdram, Promise 100, Western 40gig primary, IBM 70 gig secondary desktop has a constant problem on boot. "Volume that was removed had open files on it. Next time check first to see if volume can really be removed" message during boot. I have turned off Sleep for hard drives thinking this was causing the problem. No fix. Scan disk runs on C Drive when this occurs (occurs often). Secondary message states "the file system mounted on the volume had data that needs to be flushed. some data on the volume was lost. Next time...."
question 1) what do the messages relate to?
question 2) Any fixes?
question 3) Any problems with putting hard drives to sleep and running win98 or 2000 24x7? (for home automation purposes)
question 3) is there a web site that contains windows error messages and some background on why they trigger? (suprised this isn't basic documentation on Microsoft's web site).
Thanx for any help.
David

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by jolly roger

We need to know what volumes/partitions are available to each OS and how they are formatted. Are you configured with C: and D: drives only from both OSes and are they FAT16, FAT32, NTFS?

by harcomp

Hi David, I don't have an answer for you but I have exactly the same problem on a system I have constructed myself.
I was running 4 OS's Win98 SE, Win NT, Win ME and Win 2000. I was using BootMagic from PowerQuest. I say was because I am in the process of rebuilding my software (Win 98). All the other partitions are still there only hidden by PartitionMagic. I have been cloning my drive progressively as I add to it. Up until yesterday (19th Jan 2001) I was having no problems. Yesterday I addedWinzip 8, my Acer Prisa 640U scanner software, Office 2000 and altered my Nortons Antivirus Scan to scan email and to auto protect. This morning at startup I had the Volume error come up.
Are you running any of the above?
Anyway hope this helps and if there is anyone out there that can help you would have at least 2 very greatful members.
BTW this is the second time I've contacted Tech Republic with this issue.

by smoothtlknospam

Hello, David here: I am using System Commander 2000 to boot Win98 (C Drive) or Win 2000 Pro (D Drive). I too have Norton 2000. I have been operating on Win98 and periodically saving from c to d (both Fat 32) as backup (I got the second drive after the primary drive crashed with one month's unbacked up work on it). I never use win2000 yet as my Duo PC internet doesn't support 2000 yet. so I don't know if it has same issue. I have defragged and scan disk on both drives. Is there a utilitythat can watch on boot up and shut down to see what operation it is balking on? I have pmtshoot which is supposed to watch sleep and awake, but haven't seen anything suspicious yet. Also, possible related symptom, if I set hard drive to sleep after say 15 min, the D drive might sleep. I may be web surfing when on a click, I hear D try to wake up and the PC freezes for a few seconds (waiting for disk speed?). Most of the time no problem, just a pause. But fairly common the PC locks hard, needing a power down. Also possible related, I did have lots of problems trying to dual boot 2000 after 98 install, even with system 2000 commander. I am close to format and rebuild. Help! (thanx for the responses so far)

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