Re: what has happened to scan disk?


owais javaid Wrote:
please pull me out of this situation
whenever i boot from win98 disk i get something like "A:"
and when i type "scandisk" a message appears that cluster 2 has some
physical damage which scandisk cannot repair....backup ur data
immediately............it says that I.O/ SYS file or something like
that occupies the cluster...
now,
what is this "A"?????
when i log into Windows XP it shows "A" as my floppy drive????
how is my floppy drive damaged and containing the system file???
my computer has 3 partitions C,D,E.....and F is the CD ROM..and as
mentioned A, is the floppy......
now when i type "C:" in the DOS menu by booting with win98 the scan
disk works perfectly.But it doesn't work with D, and E....it shows a
message stating some error like it is a network drive,,etc.
another problem
The hard drive is ATA 80 GB.but
it shows only 74.52 GB...where is the rest of the space on the hard
drive............
also i use a dialup connection which
connects only at 40 Kbps where as it should have be connecting at
56Kbps.....i think my wire is not of good quality...........which wire
should i use in order to get maximum speed??
is there any method by which i can accelerate my download speed
significantly??????


contd............."What has happened to scan disk?"
well i have never used floppy disk to boot into my PC....that is why
i'm confused...that how can the floppy drive be damaged when it
contains no "floppy"??
secondly both D: & E: drives are NTFS so is that the reason for the
scandisk not running on them?
Another thing i'd like to know is that why does the system show the RAM
= 248 MB while it is 256 MB?? and why is it normal to get only 74.52 GB
hard disk instead of the said 80 GB????
MY SYSTEM IS COMPAQ PRESARIO SR150IL
MODEL.......(BRANDED).....




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owais javaid
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