I had a problem with Windows ME.. It was a full install (fdisk , format etc..)After two or three weeks everything was going fine.. I had a cd-burner that was not being detected, I had to update my ALI IDE Controllers.. from their website.. I did so and it detected my cd-r fine.. at the same time I changed my RAM in my system.. I had a 64 PC100 DIMM and a 128 PC 100 DIMM I replaced the 128MB card with two 64 MB PC100 DIMMs.. I rebooted and it passed POST and detected all the RAM fine .. A week later I started getting blue screens of death and lock ups.. My system was really messed up.
I thought is was the O/S causing so I tried to FDISK and reformat.. I could not FDISK
I received an error about "Runtime Error. Cannot Divide Integer by Zero"
I could not FDISK at all even with a Windows ME boot up disk or Win98 disk
I used a third party utlity that uses MS DOS Fdisk.. I fdisked and formated fine
Re-installed windows 98 SE.. and to make a long story short.. I can run every thing fine on the system except for the following:
I can't run scandisk or defrag in safe mode or normal mode.. I can in DOS.
I try and test XMS memory and it says I don't have it installed.. therefore Windows 98 is saying I don't have enough memory to run scandisk or defrag...I know this has nothing to do with resources or RAM.. or BIOS.. I have the standard Config.sys settings with C:\windows\himem.sys and so one.. I just want to run MS scandisk and defrag in normal mode.. or do I have to try FDISKing again.. I read the MS KB article and it tells me nothing.. except end result is to fdisk.. Is there a workaround.. other than using 3rd party scandisk and defrag tools.. ?
Thanks.
Rob