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Why is my drive doing this?

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DaveJ

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Hello all,

Reformatted and reinstalled Win98 last weekend. Had Win2k but it didn't work (driver issues). Now every time I boot, right after the Windows GUI loads and I get to the logon prompt, I get an error message that Windows "Cannot read from Drive C". Why is this? Nothing changed except the OS, I've scanned the drive multiple times for bad sectors, and nothing shows up. Gonna do a full backup tonight just in case, but IMO nothing should be wrong...

Any ideas?

Dave
 
Win2k was NTFS, and C: is active in fdisk. I forgot to mention that if I hit "Cancel" when the error pops up (three choices, cancel, abort, retry), my system comes up perfectly normal. I'm using it to type this. 🙂 The only time I see the problem is on startup. I've removed a bunch of stuff from startup, but I'm a bit paranoid about rebooting until I have a full backup, so I'll see if that works later tonight...

Dave
 


<< &quot;Cannot read from Drive C&quot;. >>

Then how are you booting up? Is your OS (Win98) on partition C:?
 


<< Then how are you booting up? Is your OS (Win98) on partition C:? >>



Yep, it is... I didn't see the error until after I got into Windows. It turns out that when I uninstalled NAV it left a bunch of crap behind in the registry... cleaning that out seems to have fixed the problem! 🙂

Dave

 
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