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April 24th, 2002, 06:57 PM
#1
 ScanDisk Trouble
Here we have a Win98 machine that has it's second new harddrive. It shuts down normally, then upon reboot, it goes into an extemely long (like 5 hours) scandisk session. The HD is <30MB. It also spontaneously gives a blue screen error stating that it cannot write to drive c: Is it the Hard Drive, Windows 98SE or what? 
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April 24th, 2002, 07:11 PM
#2
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sounds like it.. try a different HDD
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April 25th, 2002, 08:26 AM
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Bullheaded:
<strong>Here we have a Win98 machine that has it's second new harddrive. It shuts down normally, then upon reboot, it goes into an extemely long (like 5 hours) scandisk session. The HD is <30MB. It also spontaneously gives a blue screen error stating that it cannot write to drive c: Is it the Hard Drive, Windows 98SE or what? </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greater than 30MB! I sure hope so! Just messing with you...
What motherboard are you using, and how does it detect the Harddrive? You may have to change things around in the CMOS, or update the BIOS. Still could be a second bad HardDrive. Have you tried new IDE cables as well?
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April 26th, 2002, 07:24 AM
#4
Thanks for the help. I'll see what happens and let you know.
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May 23rd, 2002, 09:21 AM
#5
I'm baaaack! Same computer. This time the machine spontaneously shut down. When it rebooted, a black screen showed up & said that found an invalid boot disk. Fact is, it could no longer detect the hard drive. So, I replaced the hard drive and during partitioning with fdisk I noticed that it was going very slooooowwwwwwwlllly. Do you think the motherboard is to blame? If so, how can I test that theory? Could it be that the hard drive needs a new controller card? Any suggestions? 
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May 23rd, 2002, 09:32 AM
#6
Registered User
Looks more & more like a bad HD Controller.
Can u try with a std IDE ?
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May 24th, 2002, 10:54 AM
#7
I'll give that a try. Thanks!!!
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