GillmanRick
12-30-2001, 01:12 PM
Any suggestions. Computer locks regularly with boot record reporting wrong disk space. AMD Athlon 650 with a FIC11 board. Win 98SE. Maxtor drive. Actual error is Free space on drive C reported incorrectly.
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Strawbs
12-31-2001, 12:54 PM
need more system specs, problem details and how you know the report is wrong? what size hard disk? when the machine locks, what are you trying to do? have you run scandisk to try to fix the errors? defragged recently?
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GillmanRick
12-31-2001, 09:13 PM
The Maxtor drive is a 20G. Have a 10G D drive. I have a CDRW drive HP. 256K mem. System has always crashed occassionally on start up with explorer has performed illegal operation. Rebooting usually fixes. However system gets unstable and has to be rebooted sometimes. Running scandisk is how the error in boot record is found and fixes it. So bad that I keep a boot disk close to repair when it won't boot up. Have to defrag often. Seems as though the slightest fragmentation causes problems.
Strawbs
01-03-2002, 07:33 AM
Have you tried re-installing windows from within windows? i.e. start windows, put win disk in drive and setup from there, This will re-install all default windows files and replace any corrupt ones, but your own files\non-corrupt drivers will remain in place.
Also do you use windows update feature? if you don't, you should, there may be fixes that you don't have.
Also do you use windows update feature? if you don't, you should, there may be fixes that you don't have.
cableguy69
01-03-2002, 11:22 AM
Good idea with the reinstall. Could the free space issue be a BIOS problem??? I had a mb where the BIOS wouldn't address anything above 30gb. I had to go to the mb website and there was a BIOS update to fix the problem.
userserver
01-03-2002, 11:03 PM
Originally posted by GillmanRick
The Maxtor drive is a 20G. Have a 10G D drive. I have a CDRW drive HP. 256K mem. System has always crashed occassionally on start up with explorer has performed illegal operation. Rebooting usually fixes. However system gets unstable and has to be rebooted sometimes. Running scandisk is how the error in boot record is found and fixes it. So bad that I keep a boot disk close to repair when it won't boot up. Have to defrag often. Seems as though the slightest fragmentation causes problems.
Make sure you have version number 4.10.2225 of Ifsmgr.vxd.
BTW, what is the actual wording of the illegal operation error?
The Maxtor drive is a 20G. Have a 10G D drive. I have a CDRW drive HP. 256K mem. System has always crashed occassionally on start up with explorer has performed illegal operation. Rebooting usually fixes. However system gets unstable and has to be rebooted sometimes. Running scandisk is how the error in boot record is found and fixes it. So bad that I keep a boot disk close to repair when it won't boot up. Have to defrag often. Seems as though the slightest fragmentation causes problems.
Make sure you have version number 4.10.2225 of Ifsmgr.vxd.
BTW, what is the actual wording of the illegal operation error?
GillmanRick
01-03-2002, 11:29 PM
System just gets unstable or locks and I have to reboot. Sometimes it won't even boot from hard drive afterwards. Have to use boot disk and run scandisk and it comes back with free space on drive c being reported incorrectlly. Then I let it repair it and it works ok until it happens again.
userserver
01-04-2002, 12:04 AM
Originally posted by GillmanRick
System just gets unstable or locks and I have to reboot. Sometimes it won't even boot from hard drive afterwards. Have to use boot disk and run scandisk and it comes back with free space on drive c being reported incorrectlly. Then I let it repair it and it works ok until it happens again.
"When Windows 98 SE shuts down, it first attempts to write the contents of its virtual cache to the hard disk. If the computer's IDE hard disk contains an onboard cache, the data may be written to that device instead of to the IDE disk. If the computer switches itself off when shut down is complete, there may not be time enough at power down for the disk to write the data to the disk before the cache is cleared. Therefore, when Windows starts up again, it runs ScanDisk to check the disk"
Same thing happens on lockups. Find the cause of the lockups and you'll resolve the diskspace error.
System just gets unstable or locks and I have to reboot. Sometimes it won't even boot from hard drive afterwards. Have to use boot disk and run scandisk and it comes back with free space on drive c being reported incorrectlly. Then I let it repair it and it works ok until it happens again.
"When Windows 98 SE shuts down, it first attempts to write the contents of its virtual cache to the hard disk. If the computer's IDE hard disk contains an onboard cache, the data may be written to that device instead of to the IDE disk. If the computer switches itself off when shut down is complete, there may not be time enough at power down for the disk to write the data to the disk before the cache is cleared. Therefore, when Windows starts up again, it runs ScanDisk to check the disk"
Same thing happens on lockups. Find the cause of the lockups and you'll resolve the diskspace error.
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