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Your first problem is that Windows is not being shut down properly. You have to click on start, shutdown, shutdown the computer to do a proper shutdown of Windows 95. Anything other than that is WRONG! Do you get the whole way into Windows after getting the error messages in Scandisk or do you stop before making it to the Windows desktop?<br />
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Mike<br />

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Your first problem is that Windows is not being shut down properly. You have to click on start, shutdown, shutdown the computer to do a proper shutdown of Windows 95. Anything other than that is WRONG! Do you get the whole way into Windows after getting the error messages in Scandisk or do you stop before making it to the Windows desktop?

Mike


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These 2 files sound like back up files. The files that you need to worry about are system.dat &amp;&nbsp;user.dat. Also the user.da0 &amp;&nbsp;system.da0 are backups the the ssytem uses when the registry is recovered from. I would make copies of the files &amp;&nbsp;save them to floppy &amp;&nbsp;then delete them from your hard drive.<br />

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These 2 files sound like back up files. The files that you need to worry about are system.dat & user.dat. Also the user.da0 & system.da0 are backups the the ssytem uses when the registry is recovered from. I would make copies of the files & save them to floppy & then delete them from your hard drive.


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WHEN I TURN ON MY COMPUTER I RECEIVE THE ERROR MESSAGE:<br />
WINDOWS WAS NOT PROPERLY SHUT DOWN, ONE OR MORE OF YOUR DISK DRIVES MAY HAVE ERROR, PRESS ANY KEY<br />
SO I PRESS A KEY AND SCAN DISK RUNS THEN I GET: THE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.DA1 FILE IS DAMAGED. I CHOOSE FIX IT THEN I GET THE SIZE OF THE C:\WINDOWS\USER.DA1 FILE IS BEING MISREPORTED. &nbsp;WHAT CAN I DO TO GET WINDOWS TO START?
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WHEN I TURN ON MY COMPUTER I RECEIVE THE ERROR MESSAGE:
WINDOWS WAS NOT PROPERLY SHUT DOWN, ONE OR MORE OF YOUR DISK DRIVES MAY HAVE ERROR, PRESS ANY KEY
SO I PRESS A KEY AND SCAN DISK RUNS THEN I GET: THE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.DA1 FILE IS DAMAGED. I CHOOSE FIX IT THEN I GET THE SIZE OF THE C:\WINDOWS\USER.DA1 FILE IS BEING MISREPORTED.  WHAT CAN I DO TO GET WINDOWS TO START?

ERROR MESSAGES

This topic area includes legacy versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000: Windows 3/3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98, plus any other Windows-related versions including Windows Mobile.