Question : Scandisk hangs

Hi Folks,

   This is urgent as it is for handicapp friend of mine in which this is his only way of communicating.
 I have a Win98 machine and it is not networked etc.
What happens it this: when you turn it on, it wants to execute scandisk, and then scandisk hangs after completing 16% of it.
So it never finishes and never brings Win98 up.
I have tried some customizing in scandisk.ini file.
At one time, there was a disk doctor utility that you could execute in dos that would repair and FAT errors etc. But that was a long time ago.
Can anyone tell me how to fix this??
thanks!

Answer : Scandisk hangs

Try to boot into MS-DOS mode.
             As a first step DELETE scandisk.log file created by previous scandisk routine .It is in the root directory  ( command is :   del    c:\scandiks.log   )
             Then purge all temporary files in folowing folders:
c:\windows\temp           ( command is :  deltree /y    c:\windows\temp    )
c:\windows\applog         ( command is :  deltree /y    c:\windows\applog    )
c:\windows\tempora~\    ( command is :  deltree /y    c:\windows\tempora~1  )  
c:\temp ( if one exists)     ( command is :  deltree /y c:\temp   )
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             then run    :    chkdsk
                 
             then          :    scandisk c: /autofix  /nosave   /nosummary
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Try to reboot into Windows 98 GUI. If you're getting scandisk at boot time :  press escape key once, and then the right arrow (  -> ) key followed by    key  to force OS loader to skip  scandisk sequence .
Once you get into fully loaded GUI run  32-bit scandisk to perform thorough files system  test/repair.

You can also try these tools : test-disk  -> http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk-5.5.dos.zip  

You should probably  edit  MSDOS.SYS  file to tell bootloader to skip scandisk routine test when bad Windows shutdownd was detected. It may look like this:
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drvspace=0
dblspace=0
BootMulti=0
BootGUI=0
BootWarn=0
Network=0
LOGO=0
DoubleBuffer=1
AutoScan=1
WinVer=4.10.2222
Bootkeys=1
BootMenu=0
BootMenuDelay=30
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You have to change AutoScan=1  line to read:   AutoScan=0
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If the problem persists it might be the sign of hard-disk failure .

good luck
nedvis