Re: Upgrade from Windows 98 to XP - Unable to Start

upfeld wrote:
Non-techie here. I finally bit the bullet and decided to upgrade
from Windows 98 to XP and did the install last night. Once done,
everything seemed to work perfectly - I could access the internet,
all my programs, files, etc. The computer needed to reboot to
complete work I was trying to do to set up a home network so my
husband and I could share a printer. Since shutting down, however,
I've been unable to log back in. I get the following message:

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system FAT32
One of yoru disks needs to be check for consistency. You may
cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you
continue.
Windows will now check the disk.
Volume Serial Number is 2A5F-14F5
Windows is verifying files and folers...
(then it gives me the percentage of the work completed until 100%)
\WINDOWS\DUMP5baf.tmp is cross-linked on allocation unit 1009756.

This is where the program freezes (or would reboot until I turned
off the automatic reboot).

I'm running an IBM compatible machine. Don't know anything more
about it or how to find out....

I understood from the literature that I would have an opportunity
to choose either FAT432 or NTFS (not that those terms mean anything
to me) but I don't remember that being an option while installing.
Perhaps I just need to choose the NTFS because - ??? But how do I
do that?

I am unable to reboot in safe mode - I just get a screen full of
text (file names? file locations?) and the computer makes a
working, kind of chuffing sound (makes the same sound when it
stalls out ofter checking the disks for consistency).

PLEASE HELP!!

Sounds like your hard disk drive is bad.
Windows 98 probably just never touched the parts that were bad - Windows XP
was larger and made it into those.

Download the hard disk drive manufacturer's diagnostic utilities and run it
on the machine to check the drive for errors.

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