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by 2000man

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I got home the other day and I had an illegal operation from my firewall. I got out of it and it shut my firewall program down. So normally if I have any kind of illegal operation I restart my comp. and start fresh. Well I did that and during bootup it told me one or more of my sectors on my hard drive may be damaged and it needed to run a thourogh scan disk. I let it do it which took about 4 hours. Nothing was found. Now anytime I boot up I get the same message. I just exit out of it. Do you know what could be causing this. I keep my virus scan updated and I scan my entire system and nothing came up there either. Any ideas.
David

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by maddiuex

There are 2 possiblities, windows may have become corupted, or Your hard drive is going out, goto www.bootdisk.com and download the ultimate boot disk and run a sweep on the system, or if you know your harddrive manufactor , goto there website and download its tools. I beleive its your hard drive though!

Hope this helps

by zlitocook

A couple of questions. Did you boot into safe mode and run scan disk and if you are running win98 did you go into configeration to see if run scan disk at startup is checked? Backup all needed data, then boot to a win95 boot disk type in scandisk c:/autofix. If you do run a disk check from the hard drive maker and its ok try looking at ini and system files for load= or run=. To see if there is scandisk at startup.

by mrichmond

go into windows start run type in msconfig
goto advanced tab check disable scandisk after bad shutdown.

by 2000man

I am running win 98. I have a western digital hard drive and have run the diagnostic tools from my disk and everything checks out ok.

by pinoy_teknik

For me, scandisk is part of Windows that tells you if there is a file problem (file corruption, bad sectors.....) And if its still bugging you to scan, there is a problem....and you say you already run the through scandisk...and it run again...I think it is a hard drive problem....not the fact that it is completely damage,,,,it is why because the drive is in very low level of drive integrity.....means that your hard drive is no longer reliable for a long time and maybe after 1 week of using that scandisk will found a bad sector....

Note: Make sure that there is no Autoexec.bat or other startup that load the scandisk ,,,and i think you know this,,,i am just make sure, you know....

Pinoy_Teknik

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