Yesterday I decided to run scandisk on my Win98 machine. Unfortunately, Microsoft can't write an app that actually works with their own operating system. Even though I'd shut down every item in the Task Manager except Explorer, scandisk continued to tell me that some process was writing to the disk, so it wasn't able to work. No problem, I thought, I'll just "boot" to DOS and run the Win98 DOS version. After I did, however, I discovered that it had destroyed all of my long filenames. As you may know, files in Windows are stored with a maximum name length of 8 characters, and 3 for the extension. The ability to give files longer names is because there's a lookup file that associated the 8.3 filename with the longer name. Either this file has been destroyed or wiped out, and it doesn't look like any recovery is possible. Thanks a lot, Microsoft. It will likely take months for my data to completely recover from this. As it is, I have to reinstall every application I have, since the loss of long filenames has rendered most of them unusable.