Re: Strange disk problems

why do try to run those programs in safe mode , when that happens all of 
those drivers do not get in the way
of your maintaince programs. when you run safe mode the only drivers that 
are loaded are
1. a basic video driver
2. keyboard driver
3. floppy driver

hope this info helps

virtually yours

george



At 11:34 AM 10/06/2002 -0400, you wrote:
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>First of all, thanks to all who have helped me with the umb memory manager 
>problem.  Now I am on to the next.  I have been tinkering with freedos for 
>a couple of days now, trying to fix some mysterious disk problems, without 
>too much success.  Here are some of the symptoms:
>
>1)Scandisk can't even get started.  It just appears, does nothing, so I 
>have to enter "Quit".