Restoring Win98 on 6gig caviar 1

[techgeezer]

I finally have the hardware configured as it should be but after running scandisk it says I need to delete FILEnnnn.chk in the root directory. Can anyone tell me how this is done? This a homebuilt computer with an epox ep-3vba3 mobo and 866 proc with a WD Caviar 36400 hd.
I recieved this computer second hand and the hd and on cd-rom were linked together and running in dos mode so I reconfigured. Thanks for any help you can give.

 

[mattjurado]

You can either go to my computer, then the c drive, and select the chk file, then hit delete on your keyboard.

You can also open a dos prompt, and type the following

del c:\*.chk

Matt J.

 

[techgeezer]

Thanks Matt . I did as you said from the dos prompt. Can't get windows open yet. Now I have a flashing curser and the computer sounds like a very old electromechanical clock. Is it supposed to return to a: when complete? Is it supposed to take a while? It's been doing this for nearly an hour. Should I shut down and restart?

One can help many - many cannot help one

 

[techgeezer]

Thanks it seems to be on track again!

One can help many - many cannot help one

 

[mattjurado]

Seems like that took a long time, should have taken seconds. Is the drive making noises? Is Windows functional, give me some more details...

Matt J.

 

[techgeezer]

The drive made noises for nearly an hour but finallt stopped at the A prompt. I messed up in configuring the HD when trying to get it functioning normally. It seems it was configured LBA originally and I set it up 'Normal' So scandisk redid the files twice and I was unable to recover the original programming. Not much lost that I wanted to keep.I'm still making the mistakes but I'm still learning from them and guys like you. Thanks so much for the help. I reformatted and installed win2k. Now I need to find the driver for modem and software for the burner. Mainly what I was trying to keep.

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