Disposable Hero
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Posted: Aug. 15 2002,23:50 |
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I agree with Magnus that you should immediately run scandisk, and enable "bad sector checking". I don't have access to Win98, so I don't know the exact wording. You should look for and enable anything like "Automatically fix file system errors" and "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" - this is the language used in Win2000.
Warning: the following may take a long time to complete, especially on a larger drive. Let it run when you are not going to use the computer for a while, and do not interrupt the process.
To get to these options, I can only give you the Win2000 method, but it's similar in Win98 if I recall correctly. In any Windows Explorer window, right-click on the drive containing the bad file, click the Tools tab - ther should be a section titled "Error-checking". Click the "Check Now..." button and check both of the boxes, then click Start. When it's done, reboot.
If the file's still there after reboot, and you still can't delete it, I can give instructions for forcing that to happen
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