Well, I've brought a diskette from home that has both ScanDisk and Chkdsk from my Win98 box. Booted the PC to a diskette, then swapped in the disk with these 2 programs on it. Tried to run both of them, and got the same error message:
(Paraphrasing) "This program will only work on a device that has Windows 95 or later."
The hard drive is Win 98, the utilities are from a box that has Win 98 SE, so what in the world would cause such a stupid message to appear. Friggin' M$!!!
Even though the wife will get pissed at me, I'm going out a buying a case, motherboard and AMD CPU, and tossing the dead hard drive; I've wasted too much time on it already. Recommendations, anyone?