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To: Junkyardawg who wrote (2707)	4/3/1999 2:05:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110644

Dawg, 8 hours to scan 2% does not sound right. Surface scans are very time consuming but not THAT long. I assume you are running scandisk from the C: prompt? If it was me I would use the sledge hammer approach and format the drive (after salvaging what files I could), although if the disk is damaged I'm not sure if Windows will even install. Someone here may have a screwdriver approach whereby you can repair some files or the registry. Basically it sounds like it's pretty screwed up <g>. Out of curiosity, what program were you trying to install? Lots of luck, wily

To: Junkyardawg who wrote (2707)	4/3/1999 2:32:00 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110644

Hope this can help. What's on the startup floppy on my notebook. [The AUTOEXEC.BAT file] set EXPAND=YES SET DIRCMD=/O:N cls set temp=c:set tmp=c:path=a: IF "%config%"=="NOCD" GOTO QUIT LH MSCDEX.EXE /D:oemcd001 /L:D echo. IF "%config%"=="SETUP_CD" goto AUTOSETUP GOTO QUIT :AUTOSETUP set CDROM=FOO23 FINDCD.EXE if "%CDROM%"=="FOO23" goto NOCDROM path=a:\;%CDROM%%CDROM% cd \WIN98 echo. OEMSETUP.EXE goto QUIT :NOCDROM echo. echo The Windows 98 Setup files were not found. echo. :QUIT [End of AUTOEXEC.BAT file] [The CONFIG.SYS file] [menu] menuitem=SETUP_CD, Start Windows 98 Setup from CD-ROM. menuitem=CD, Start computer with CD-ROM support. menuitem=NOCD, Start computer without CD-ROM support. menudefault=SETUP_CD,30 menucolor=7,0 [SETUP_CD] device=himem.sys /testmem:off device=oakcdrom.sys /D:oemcd001 device=btdosm.sys device=flashpt.sys device=btcdrom.sys /D:oemcd001 device=aspi2dos.sys device=aspi8dos.sys device=aspi4dos.sys device=aspi8u2.sys device=aspicd.sys /D:oemcd001 [CD] device=himem.sys /testmem:off device=oakcdrom.sys /D:oemcd001 device=btdosm.sys device=flashpt.sys device=btcdrom.sys /D:oemcd001 device=aspi2dos.sys device=aspi8dos.sys device=aspi4dos.sys device=aspi8u2.sys device=aspicd.sys /D:oemcd001 [NOCD] device=himem.sys /testmem:off [COMMON] files=60 buffers=20 dos=high,umb stacks=9,256 lastdrive=z [End of CONFIG.SYS] My suggestion: See if you can get enough info from these files to re-create a bootable floppy for yourself. Obviously, our systems differ, but if you can get yours to crawl, then limp, then walk, perhaps running cannot be too far off. Please let us know how you progress. We can suggest with more accuracy once we have a clearer idea of what we're dealing with. Happy Easter, PW.