Scandisk and FAT32 and PartitionMagic5.0

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After much grief I finally took out a 4 gig drive moved an 8 gig drive and installed a new 20 gig drive.&nbsp;&nbsp;The 8 gig drive was a dual boot to WIN95 and WIN98.&nbsp;&nbsp;Had assorted problems along the way but thought I finally got it right.&nbsp;&nbsp;The 2 gig FAT16 partition on the 20 gig primary drive is for WIN95 and following that is a 13 gig FAT32 partition for WIN98 (now second edition).&nbsp;&nbsp;Following that are two 2 gig FAT16 partitions for assorted purposes.&nbsp;&nbsp;The 8 gig drive has been reset to four 2 gig FAT16 partitions for assorted purposes.&nbsp;&nbsp;The new drive is now dual boot WIN95 and WIN 98 second edition.<br><br>At one point in this process I had a file reported to be cross linked by scandisk in WIN 98 and I corrected that.&nbsp;&nbsp;The WIN 98 system then had a fatal problem causing me to reinitialize and reload the WIN 98 partition.&nbsp;&nbsp;Everything seems to be okay until I now try to run scandisk.&nbsp;&nbsp;After only a few seconds I am told I am out of memory on a 256 meg system with nothing of significance running.&nbsp;&nbsp;It appears to be somehow related to a FAT table issue, but, I don't know how.&nbsp;&nbsp;I have tried to run scandisk in safe mode and the same thing happens.&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course, disk defragmenter will not run with this problem.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, a funny thing happened on the way to trying to solve this problem.&nbsp;&nbsp;Scandisk will run to completion if I shut down the system imporperly and restart.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yet it will not run in Win98 proper.&nbsp;&nbsp;It will run on all of the other partitions.&nbsp;&nbsp;Since then I have loaded at least 2 more gigs of software into this partition and have had no problems although I still can't run scandisk or defragmenter on this WIN 98 partition.&nbsp;&nbsp;It seems like I'm waiting for something to kick me in the rear end.<br><br>The BIOS does correctly report a 20 gig drive and an eight gig drive.&nbsp;&nbsp;The BIOS is as up-to-date as it will get (0109) as ASUS is no longer generating new updates for the TXP4 boards. <br><br>

 

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Clivo, in the PC Hardware forum, answered this and referred me to the MS Knowledgebase article Q229154 which has the specifics.&nbsp;&nbsp;Thanks again to Clivo.