hello guys like the new site hope the help is the same inteligent life form as before ,now me problemo my daughter was play on the pc and the pc froze up in the middle of her game ,i told her to hit restart i knew it being 98 se the blue screen of death would soon arive and run a scan and it did but when it finished it said there were errors on the disk drive c so i thought ill reformat when through the procedures in bios boot from cd and so on when dos poped up i put format c: and it kept going and asked the usaual all data will be lost then if i wanted to proceed i typed y then it went to 11 percent and stopped and said not enough memory and went back to the call letter i typed in setup it proceeded as though it were going to setup windows ran a scan to 11 percent in scan disk then a window appeared and stated that d was ok but c still had errors on it ,any body gotta clue to whats going on here???:undecided :computer_

Hi faithbuilder - yup still the same support crowd (with a few excellent additions).

Sounds like you may have bad sectors on your hard drive. Grab a 98 bootdisk from here: www.bootdisk.com and when at the a: prompt, type c: then return then chkdsk. This will scan your hard drive for errors (and hopefully fix them). If the process completes successfully you can try to continue with your Win98 install.

If you are willing to start from scratch.. :computer_
...I'd recommend that you re-partition the drive using FDISK and then try re-formatting the drive again. The formatting will need to complete so if it doesn't (or you need help with FDISK) repost here for more help from the great pchf tech team!

GrO0 mmit

i did it the scan disk ran to 11 percent then a grey window popped up and says scandisk incurred an error while reading the fat on drive c , when i was at a promt i hit c: it came up i typed in chkdsk like you said it said to try scandisk instead thats why the scandisk any clues here . thanks for fast reponse earlier.

Hi Faithbuilder,

I would do the following, get into your BIOS on bootup. (Usually that entails tapping either F10, F11, or Esc repeatedly) Using your arrow keys, navigate to Storage, and down to IDE Self test. Hit enter. Once it has finished, it should be able to give you some information about your harddrive, if nothing or little shows up,

I would run the FDisk utility from your bootdisk, and then reformat your PC.

If you have any difficulties plese don't hesitate to holler.

TTFN

T

ok how do i fdisk step by step i tryed fdisk and it came back with same **** as before i tryed the chkdsk and scan disk it came back after running 11 percent and says scan disk encountered a data error in the fat on drive c this error prevents scandisk from fixing the drive.