Re: what has happened to scan disk?

owais javaid wrote:



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"??


Unknown. Your description of your partitioning scheme, as well as vague references to a Win98 disk, are not at all clear. It almost sounds as if you're trying to boot a WinXP computer using a Win98 boot diskette. Naturally, if your WinXP partitions are NTFS, the portion of Win98 loaded into memory by the boot diskette won't be able to read them. As far as it'll be concerned, the only drive on the computer will be the A: drive.


secondly both D: & E: drives are NTFS so is that the reason for the
scandisk not running on them?


Scandisk won't run because it doesn't exist on a WinXP system. If you're trying to use Win98's Scandisk from a Win98 boot diskette to scan NTFS partitions, you're wasting your time. Win98 *cannot* read or otherwise access the NTFS file system. Boot into WinXP and use its native tool, Chkdsk, instead.


Another thing i'd like to know is that why does the system show the RAM
= 248 MB while it is 256 MB??


Does your computer's motherboard happen to have an integrated video controller that uses a portion (12Mb is common for lower-end controllers) of the system RAM for video display? Consult the computer manual.


and why is it normal to get only 74.52 GB
hard disk instead of the said 80 GB????


WinXP, like other operating systems, measures kilobytes, megabytes, and gigabytes as:

1 Kb = 1024 bytes
1 Mb = 1024 Kb = 1,048,576 bytes
1 Gb = 1024 Mb = 1,073,741,824 bytes

However, a common marketing ploy used by hard drive manufacturers to make their products seem a bit larger than they really are is to assign the value of an even 1,000,000,000 bytes to the gigabyte.




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