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Windows XP Home, during boot-up, just before the smarmy "Welcome"
message, flashes ever so briefly about 4 lines of error message, one
of which accuses me (an impeccable neatnik) of having a "dirty" disk.
My computer is a Dimension XPS Gen 2, with 3 drives:
C: Seagate SATA (120 gb ntfs)
D: Maxtor IDE (120 gb ntfs)
G: IBM IDE (60 gb fat32)
It's G: that's referred to by the message.
That drive has been installed since shortly after I bought the XPS,
but only recently has the error message come up. And since XPS can
actually run for as long as a week without the daily rebooting
required by 98SE, I've only seen it a few times--but it's done it
every reboot since the first time.
Is there some way to stop the boot-up long enough to read the message
(the Pause key doesn't do it)?
I thought I'd run my old favorite hate, Scandisk, but it doesn't seem
to be available in XP. Have I just misplaced it?
Any suggestions for some sort of program to "hoover" my dirty disk?
And is there any way to remove that ridiculous "Welcome?" (Jeez,
Louise, welcome to my *own* computer?!) If not removing it, changing
it would be nice. How about: "Hi there, Mr. Wells--my you're lookin'
good today! Stand by while I load all my bloatware and try to getcha
goin' here."
--John W. Wells
Windows XP Home, during boot-up, just before the smarmy "Welcome"
message, flashes ever so briefly about 4 lines of error message, one
of which accuses me (an impeccable neatnik) of having a "dirty" disk.
My computer is a Dimension XPS Gen 2, with 3 drives:
C: Seagate SATA (120 gb ntfs)
D: Maxtor IDE (120 gb ntfs)
G: IBM IDE (60 gb fat32)
It's G: that's referred to by the message.
That drive has been installed since shortly after I bought the XPS,
but only recently has the error message come up. And since XPS can
actually run for as long as a week without the daily rebooting
required by 98SE, I've only seen it a few times--but it's done it
every reboot since the first time.
Is there some way to stop the boot-up long enough to read the message
(the Pause key doesn't do it)?
I thought I'd run my old favorite hate, Scandisk, but it doesn't seem
to be available in XP. Have I just misplaced it?
Any suggestions for some sort of program to "hoover" my dirty disk?
And is there any way to remove that ridiculous "Welcome?" (Jeez,
Louise, welcome to my *own* computer?!) If not removing it, changing
it would be nice. How about: "Hi there, Mr. Wells--my you're lookin'
good today! Stand by while I load all my bloatware and try to getcha
goin' here."
--John W. Wells
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