Thread: cant defrag
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Old 09-09-2002, 02:47 AM  
phogirl69
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I have this problem too...

Not only can I not defrag but I can't scan disk either!

I get "Scandisk encountered a data error while reading the FAT drive on drive C"

EMM 386 not installed

XMS manager not present

The following file is missing or corrupted C:\windows\himem.sys

I think it's corrputed because I'm pretty sure I still have the himem.sys file on my pc, so at least it's still there.

I also get some msg about bad boot sectors on my drive, and I have difficulty loading windows.

Is my pc still "save able" or is it hopeless? Sorry to intrude on your thread but I thought I would bring it up because I'm having similar problems.
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