Hi all, i've been getting Win98 scandisk errors ever since putting XP on my PC's!
PC1:
On my Athlon i have all drives/partitions FAT32 with Multi-Boot 98 on C: & XP on D:... all other stuff on various other partitions...
If use XP on it for a while (maybe a few days) then boot to 98 and run scandisk, it detects errors on whatever partitions i've used... (incorrect MS-DOS names or sumut)
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PC2:
On the other Celeron i have just XP on a NTFS partition with all other parts FAT32 for 98 compatability...
If i ghost 98 back to it and run a scandisk on the drives that XP has used (all of them) it too finds errors...
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Scandisk finds errors if run from within 98.... it finds nothing wrong if run from a floppy in DOS, CHKDSK doesn't find any errors at all on any of the FAT32 drives either (with any switches)...
if i allow 98 scandisk to fix it, it messes up the filenames and i basically lose them
i expect that this problem is normal and all dual booters get it as theres nothing wrong with the files in XP, is this just the way it is and i should just avoid Win98 scandisk on XP FAT32 Partitions when in 98? I would like a comfirmation of this and hopefully a reason why?
It seems XP stores (and reads) stuff differently on the FAT32 to what 98 does
anyone shed some light on this please... TIA & Regards
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[This message has been edited by LotusAstra (edited 12-04-2001).]
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