Re: CHDSK message Vista won't boot

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Hi,

Vista won't use a FAT32 partition, it needs to be NTFS, so using fdisk to repartition would be useless. Diskpart has to be run from the recovery console accessed by booting the Vista disk. Most recovery disks won't have that as an option, it's a limitation of options imposed by the system manufacturer.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"TheGremlin" <rocket@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:QspEm.6930$LE1.478@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks Rick, You're saying do a re-install of the OS (Vista) not a restore, right?

BTW, I've use a Win98 boot floppy on XP machines with a corrupted HD to FDISK and

and reload XP. Most XP install disks will see the DOS partition and reformat to

NTFS. Must admit, haven't tried it on a VISTA yet.

Where would a run diskpart from since I don't think the box will boot in

safe mode?

Thanks Again


"Rick Rogers" <rick@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23v5%23j28UKHA.4704@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi,

To check the state of the hard drive you should download a diagnostic utility from the manufacturer. What it appears from your message below is that you may simply have a bad sector, this does not necessarily mean the whole drive is bad. The problem may be that this sector contains necessary information for the operating system to load. If necessary to reinstall, simply do so without formatting so that data in the current installation is not lost. You may find though, that your restore disk is not capable of this, it depends on the manufacturer.

Fdisk, by the way, is an old tool from the now-defunct Win9x line and is not used in an NT system. NT uses a command line tool called diskpart.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Ken" <rocket@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:XEbEm.43727$4E.21444@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello, I get the following message on my VISTA computer and I need to know is the hard drive dead and will I have to FDISK, or equivalent and reload windows from restore disk, or can Windows Vista be recovered without wipind the hard drive clean by and FDISK. Here is the screen:

" Chcecking the file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS.

One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. you may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue. windows will now check the disk.

CHKDSK is verfying files (Stage 1 of 3).....
Deleted corrupt attribute list entry with type code 128 in file 36538.
Deleting corrupt attribute record (128, "")
from file record segment 15303.
Readable file record segment 15303 is not writeable."

This is all I get when I boot.

Help thanks
Ken





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