ScanDisk Refers to Volume Label as File

Last reviewed: September 7, 1995
Article ID: Q129891

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 95

SYMPTOMS

When you run ScanDisk, you may receive the following error message

   The <drive> folder contains incorrect information about the <name>
   file.

where <drive> is the hard disk's drive letter and <name> is the hard disk's volume label.

CAUSE

ScanDisk checks for and corrects invalid characters in the hard disk's volume label, but incorrectly reports such errors as problems with a file.

Note that there is no danger in permitting ScanDisk to correct the invalid characters.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Windows 95. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

KBCategory: kbtool kberrmsg
KBSubcategory: wpp95 win95 diskmem scandisk
Additional reference words: 95

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Last reviewed: September 7, 1995
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