Do NOT, NEVER use any OS system tools within dosbox, especially not ones
that want to directly access the disk. This is not what emulators are for,
not dosbox and not any other.
Use XPs disk checker, or some other, but not scandisk.

How come?

And can you suggest anything for running the 16-bit scandisk on the 32-bit Vista? Though I don't see why it should be a problem in the first place.

scandisk utilities are closely tight to the supported filesystems by the os.
Hence mixing them is a bad idea.

wd wrote:

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Do NOT, NEVER use any OS system tools within dosbox, especially not ones
that want to directly access the disk. This is not what emulators are for,
not dosbox and not any other.
Use XPs disk checker, or some other, but not scandisk.

Very wisely said.

Why on earth would one would to use a 16-bit, twelve year old scandisk on a brand-new operating system like Vista? Frankly speaking, this is just asking for trouble.

Just use the built-in Vista disk check by right-clicking on your hard drive in "computer" and selecting tools.

Once again, running windows 95 scandisk on Vista is an extremely stupid idea, to say the least.

But in my case, it's required for a certain programme to install. When I couldn't figure out why it didn't install, I recalled all the programmes that it runs before installing and tried running them one by one, and the scandisk is the one that failed.

Maybe it isn't compatible with XP? Especially not if it runs scandisk.
Setup some virtual environment and install win9x in there, and your
program, too.

Then set it up on a disk image and try to extract the installed program from the disk image.

I just remembered something that might be of interest in the initial post: the D:\ (mounted C drive) has a FAT16 filesystem.

So... is there a way to let scandisk access the disk directly?

wd wrote:

Maybe it isn't compatible with XP? Especially not if it runs scandisk.
Setup some virtual environment and install win9x in there, and your
program, too.

Dominus wrote:

Then set it up on a disk image and try to extract the installed program from the disk image.

How do I do either one of those things?

a) search for qemu, vpc, vmware etc.
b) search the forum

Hmm, I'll try it, thanks, because searching the internet for just "Virtual Environment" returned wiki pages that talk about it, forums that talk about how useless they are, &c., but no virtual environments themselves.

look at the dosbox guides forum.
You understood wd's answers wrong, he answered your two questions, for the first one he recommended to search for search for qemu, vpc, vmware etc. Searching for "Virtual Environment" doesn't help there.

For the second he told you to search the forum (not the net, the forum, meaning this forum). Again "Virtual Environment" isn't the search term, especially when I told you to "Then set it up on a disk image and try to extract the installed program from the disk image." I'll probably have to add, that this still meant you to use that advice with Dosbox.

Sorry to be so teacher like, but I DO believe in educating people to be able to find stuff on their own. If you just present results to people they don't learn.

Yeah, thanks, I meant that I searched for Virtual Environment before posting the question about how to set one up.

bah, talking about reading more closely what people write. Sorry.

Awesome, thanks, even though the virtual machine didn't quite work, I'm guessing it's some bug, I can use it to do other stuff... I'm assuming there's no risk whatsoever using a Virtual Machine? Like from software overclocking and stuff?

Edit: Oh, and I'm sorry, one more thing, is there a way to let the emulator to take over my computer (like to let it control shutting down, &c.)?

Sasha wrote:

Edit: Oh, and I'm sorry, one more thing, is there a way to let the emulator to take over my computer (like to let it control shutting down, &c.)?

If you hack the software, it may can do, but usually it can shut down itself only.

Is it just me, or is this thread just kind of surreal?

Sasha, why do you want to run W95 scandisk on Vista?! Either this is a bad joke, or you don't know about the handy llittle "chkdsk" command that's been in all Windows NT versions since the first one AFAIK (XP and Vista are NT ("New Technology") based OS's, too). To use it, open a command prompt, and type "chkdsk" to get instructions.

I think you should read some articles about emulators (like the Wikipedia one). You should also be aware of the fact that there are some fundamental differences between emulation and virtualization.

What program do you want to install/run on your Vista machine? If we knew that, we could try to help you getting that program to work, instead of just shooting in the dark.