Any way to bypass scandisk when installing 98SE?

[Chemical Spill]

Trying to install 98SE on a freshly formatted C: partition. Scandisk is taking forever during the directory scan on every other partition, by the time it reaches the Q drive the sun will be rising tomorrow. System was running with no disk problems and was checked by Nortion Utils with no probs detected.

Is there command line or other trick to bypass the scandisk during an install?

[OuTpaTienT]

Note the red and red-bold text:


Windows 98 command line switches for SETUP.EXE

/? - This switch provides a brief summary of the available Setup switches
and the correct command-line syntax to use them.

/c - This switch bypasses running SMARTDrive.

/d - This switch bypasses using your existing Windows configuration
(such as your current Win.ini and System.ini files).

/l - Use this switch if you have a Logitech mouse and want it enabled during Setup.

/n - This switch causes Setup to run without a mouse.

-s - Use this switch to use an alternate Setup.inf file.

/t:<dir> - This switch lets you specify where Setup copies its
temporary files. WARNING: Any existing files in this
folder are deleted.

/ih - This switch causes Setup to run ScanDisk in the foreground.

/im - Causes setup to ignore the conventional memory check.

/iq - If you use the /is switch to bypass ScanDisk or ScanDisk fails,
Setup checks your drive for cross-linked files. The /iq switch
prevents Setup from doing this.

/is - This switch causes Setup not to run ScanDisk.

/it - This switch bypasses checking for the presence of "dirty" or
"deadly" terminate-and-stay-resident programs (TSRs) that are known
to cause problems with Windows Setup.

[Chemical Spill]

Awesome!

Thank you very much

[phlatline]

setup /is

[OuTpaTienT]

Originally posted by Chemical Spill
Awesome!

Thank you very much

You're welcome.

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