I've got a 98 machine that for some reason is giving me the "your disk may have bad sectors, scandisk requires a surface scan" every boot.

Problem is, I have a 128gb drive connected, and Scandisk can't complete a surface scan.

I've tried a couple of times. Both DOS and Safe Mode are glacially slow (suspect no DMA) and lock up (DOS after about 6h, and Safe mode after about 24h)

EIther way, this is a Crusoe 800mhz, so it's a borderline hopeless endeavour in the first place with that particular cpu, haha

Running Scandisk under normal windows just gets the "something's changed! restarting!" over and over again, so is useless.

Clean shutdowns don't clear the flag. Windows is utterly convinced the drive has bad sectors and needs to run scandisk.

This is an msata SSD plugged into a msata --> PATA adapter. This configuration works great on other identical machines, so while it could be that the drive is dead, I doubt it.

Would like to resolve this, as this machine is my image master, and I was in the middle of making changes to it when this issue occurred, would rather not have to retrace my steps on this one.

Thanks in advance!