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Article ID: 311561 - Last Review: January 31, 2007 - Revision: 1.6
MS-DOS Does Not Properly Process Hard Disk Hardware Errors
This article was previously published under Q311561
Data corruption may occur when you are using an MS-DOS-based
program in MS-DOS mode if your hard disk has a hardware error. Your computer is in MS-DOS mode if you started your computer with a system startup floppy disk, or if you selected
Command Prompt Only from the
Startup menu, or if you selected
Restart in MS-DOS mode from the
Shut Down Windows dialog box. It only occurs in Windows if the
Performance tab of the System tool in Control
Panel indicates that the disk file system is using MS-DOS Compatibility mode.
This problem can occur if MS-DOS does not process hard disk errors correctly when the hard disk is being accessed by using LBA mode (extended interrupt 13). This can cause data to be returned that has not really been read or the failure to completely write data to the disk. In either case, no failure is returned to the program.
The following files are available for download from the Microsoft
Download Center:
Windows 98 and Windows 98 Second Edition (SE)
Windows Millennium Edition (Me)
The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later.
Windows 98
Date Time Size File name
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30-Nov-2001 21:31 222,670 Io.sys
Windows 98 Second Edition
Date Time Size File name
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01-Dec-2001 15:37 222,670 Io.sys
Windows Millennium Edition (Me)
Date Time Size File name
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29-Nov-2001 12:29 110,080 Io.sys
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
- Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
- Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
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