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what has happened to scan disk?
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?????? if i use electricity wire (the main supply wire) as a telephone wire would it help????? |
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what has happened to scan disk?
IO.SYS is usually in the root, i.e. C:\IO.SYS. On XP IO.SYS is a 0 byte
file. IO.SYS is not needed in XP. The IO.SYS that you're seeing is probably on your floppy disk. Scandisk.exe does not exist in XP. XP uses chkdsk.exe. Scandisk.exe will NOT work with NTFS formatted drives. The only place that you find scandisk.exe is on your A: drive 98 floppy. A: is almost always a floppy drive. Drive letters A and B are typically reserved for floppy disk drives. If the computer does not have a floppy disk drive, you can assign drive letters A and B to removable drives, hard disk drives, or mapped network drives. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes MS-MVP Windows Shell/User In news owais javaid hunted and pecked: 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?????? if i use electricity wire (the main supply wire) as a telephone wire would it help????? -- owais javaid |
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what has happened to scan disk?
On regards to your Dial-up connection there's no way you can make that
connection faster, this all depends on the server line that your are connecting to... and is hard to get the full speed on those but in a lucky day and time, you'll get at least 45Kbps "Wesley Vogel" wrote: IO.SYS is usually in the root, i.e. C:\IO.SYS. On XP IO.SYS is a 0 byte file. IO.SYS is not needed in XP. The IO.SYS that you're seeing is probably on your floppy disk. Scandisk.exe does not exist in XP. XP uses chkdsk.exe. Scandisk.exe will NOT work with NTFS formatted drives. The only place that you find scandisk.exe is on your A: drive 98 floppy. A: is almost always a floppy drive. Drive letters A and B are typically reserved for floppy disk drives. If the computer does not have a floppy disk drive, you can assign drive letters A and B to removable drives, hard disk drives, or mapped network drives. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes MS-MVP Windows Shell/User In news owais javaid hunted and pecked: 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?????? if i use electricity wire (the main supply wire) as a telephone wire would it help????? -- owais javaid |
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what has happened to scan disk?
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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?????? if i use electricity wire (the main supply wire) as a telephone wire would it help????? WinXP does not have a program called "Scandisk," as this was a Win9x/Me program. Instead, because WinXP is descended from the WinNT/2K OS family, it has a command line utility called "Chkdsk," which performs much better. Start Run Cmd Chkdsk.exe /? for the correct syntax and available options. Alternatively, double-click My Computer right-click the desired hard drive Properties Tools Error-checking/Check Now. This will run Chkdsk, normally on the next reboot. However, unless you are actually experiencing a specific problem related to your hard drive's file system, there's no real need to run Chkdsk. The utility is not designed to be used as part of any period maintenance plan. If a file system or hard drive error is detected during the boot process, Chkdsk will also launch automatically. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell |
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what has happened to scan disk?
"owais javaid" wrote in message
news please pull me out of this situation whenever i boot from win98 disk i get something like "A:" That's normal when booting from a floppy drive with just the boot files on them. AKA msdos. Or, win98 startup diskette with autoexect corrupted. and when i type "scandisk" a message appears that cluster 2 has some Its defaulting to the floppy drive for what to scan. physical damage which scandisk cannot repair....backup ur data immediately............it says that I.O/ SYS file or something like Scandisk cannot repair any boot file area used. Io.sys is one of 3 files needed for booting msdos, any version. that occupies the cluster... now, what is this "A"????? A: is your floppy diskette media. when i log into Windows XP it shows "A" as my floppy drive???? Yes. how is my floppy drive damaged ANd containing the system file??? The drive isn't damaged, the media is. 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. Since you refuse to describe what D: and E: are, no solution is forthcoming. C: is the boot partition for 98. 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............ Normal. 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 It may be many things including your telephone wire inside of the home/apartment. Also may be the server, internet traffic at the time, the limits of the telephone line locally to the closest telephone service station or substation. 56K is also a limit depending on which method is used for 56K by your ISP server if capable. For comparison sake, I have 56Kbps external modem. My connection speed varies from 50 to 46Kbps. The telephone substation is 1/2 mile from the house. All telephone wiring came with the 2 year old house. Telephone company provided new wiring at time of intial telephone installation to the house from the pole. should i use in order to get maximum speed?? is there any method by which i can accelerate my download speed significantly?????? Possibly, ADSL. Call your phone company provider. if i use electricity wire (the main supply wire) as a telephone wire would it help????? Absolutely not, and no, could kill you and your PC. Dave |
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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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what has happened to scan disk?
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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............ Answered Below when you asked it again. 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?? This can be so many factors - it's not worth trying to fix. The trouble could be the modem driver, an initialization strong, the modem itself, the wire going fromthe modem to the wall, the wire inside the wall, the wire going from your home to the telephone company, the wire going from the telephone company to the internet service provider, the internet service providers lines inside their building, the line from the wall to their modems, their modems and its negotiation with your particular modem, the modem you happen to get aon any given call, and so on.... is there any method by which i can accelerate my download speed significantly?????? Get high-speed internet. DSL... Cable Modem... Satellite... Celluar Modem... Wireless high-speed... etc. answers to next post inline as well 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"?? What? Are you confused by your own words? "... whenever i boot from win98 disk i get something like "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 ..." Or did you word it badly? If you had no floppy diskette drive - you should have stated that 'right off'. Then stated you had created/downloaded/obtained a bootable Windows 98 CD someone had created and were booting from it (The Windows 98 CD was *not* bootable on its own - it required a boot floppy diskette and you could easily make/download an image of one of these and make it into a CD.) secondly both D: & E: drives are NTFS so is that the reason for the scandisk not running on them? Windows 98 cannot read NTFS. If you are attempting to run SCANDISK (a Windows 9x/ME product) - Yes, them being NTFS would not be readable by scandisk. 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???? Wow - you are just full of random/Google searchable questions today... RAM: Well - do you have a built in video card? Meaning you cannot open the computer case and pull out the video card you have and set it aside apart from the motherboard? If so - it is SHARING the memory you have installed. You have 256MB installed, it shows 248MB - so it is utilizing 8MB for your video. I would say this is common for older/lower-end machines. Hard disk drive: Even easier to explain. This 'problem' is actually 'misunderstanding of marketing vs. reality' as you will see... Advertised --- Approx. Actual Capacity 10GB --- 9.31 GB 20GB --- 18.63 GB 30GB --- 27.94 GB 40GB --- 37.25 GB 60GB --- 55.88 GB 80GB --- 74.51 GB 100GB --- 93.13 GB 120GB --- 111.76 GB 160GB --- 149.01 GB 180GB --- 167.64 GB 200GB --- 186.26 GB 250GB --- 232.83 GB 320GB --- 298.02 GB 400GB --- 372.53 GB 500GB --- 465.66 GB 750GB --- 698.49 GB The actual formatted and usable storage area is often less than what is advertised on the boxes of today's hard disks. It's not that the manufacturers are outright lying, instead they are taking advantage of the fact that there's no standard set for how to describe a drives' storage capacity. This results from a definitional difference among the terms kilobyte (K), megabyte (MB), and gigabyte (GB). In short, here we use the base-two definition favored by most of the computer industry and used within Windows itself, whereas hard drive vendors favor the base-10 definitions. With the base-two definition, a kilobyte equals 1,024 (210) bytes; a megabyte totals 1,048,576 (220) bytes, or 1,024 kilobytes; and a gigabyte equals 1,073,741,824 (230) bytes, or 1,024 megabytes. With the base-10 definition used by storage companies, a kilobyte equals 1,000 bytes, a megabyte equals 1,000,000 bytes, and a gigabyte equals 1,000,000,000 bytes. Put another way, to a hard drive manufacturer, a drive that holds 6,400,000 bytes of data holds 6.4GB; to software that uses the base-two definition, the same drive holds 6GB of data, or 6,104MB. So, be prepared when you format that new 320GB drive and find only 298GB of usable storage space. Isn't marketing wonderful? MY SYSTEM IS COMPAQ PRESARIO SR150IL MODEL.......(BRANDED)..... My condolences. ;-) That model does not exist as fas as I can discover... However, the Compaq Presario SR1500IL Desktop PC does: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/p...ang=en& cc=us You may want to find your exact model number and repost: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...491661&lang=en Here are more FAQs on said product - that if it is your model number - may help you out: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...1661&la ng=en -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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what has happened to scan disk?
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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. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell |
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