My system crashed when it rebooted and ran ScanDisk it said that it found a file NAME that was to long and it could not repair it and that I should run ScanDisk from WINDOWS. I tried to do so and GOT the message " ScanDisk could not continue because your computer does not have enough available memory..." So I went to msconfig unchecked "normal start up" and checked "selective startup" and unchecked "load start up group Items" clicked on apply
rebooted and tried again. Same result. Even tried in SafeMode. Same result.
I have 768 MB of memory. How can I get it to runWhat Windows version is it?Windows 98SeHow big is your hard drive? How much of it is full? How big is your swapfile?

200G
with 98se partiton 147 g with 42g used
currently swapfile is at 252m
Posting exact scandisk error about long file name would be helpful.
It should say something about a cluster where offending file(s) is located.Travel to bootdisk.com and grab the Win98SE custom BOOT file...grab the one with CDRom support.
Then use that file to create a bootable FLOPPY...
Boot to the floppy and run Scandisk from there...