Re: disk repair w/ XP?
- From: "John" <noreply@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:55:28 -0400
Thanks Everyone,
Right now I am going w/ the rt-click > Properties > Tools > Error Checking
method. I have it set to automatically fix errors and try to rescue data
from bad sectors.
Would I have to rum chddsk from Start >Run or from a DOS prompt (or is
either one fine)? What's the difference between the /F and /R switches?
Should I use both of them?
BTW I did try to back up all relevant data right away. Every once in a while
there is still something I need from the other drive though because back
then I wasn't smart enough to keep all data from all applications under one
folder (w/ subfolders) so that it could be backed up or copied easily.
I would like to save this drive's contents if possible but if I have to
reformat it and reinstall W98 that's fine. It is a Maxtor 94098U8 (or BUB?).
I'll see if there is a way to d/l utils for it.
John
"Andrew E." <eckrichco@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:20EF4A31-A4CE-4838-AFF0-85F8D2374FC3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
98 can only read FAT32 file systems,NTFS works on xp not 98.XP has disk
repair utilities,R.click C: drive in my computer,properties,tools.One
can/should
boot to xp cd,recovery,type:CHKDSK D: /R D: being 98 This attempts to
repair bad sectors
"John" wrote:
I recently noticed that there does not seem to be any sort of disk repair
utility w/ XP.
I have a HP desktop PC w/ W98 that will not boot up. It goes straight
into a
DOS version of ScanDisk, and when it identifies errors in the boot sector
and asks me whether I want to skip, fix, or whatever, it doesn't respond
to
the keyboard. I was able to take the HD out, put it into a USB external
case, plug it into my laptop (which has XP Pro) and I can read files from
it. I noticed that there is no ScanDisk w/ XP. I ran Disk Defrag and
there
did not seem to be any options for fixing errors during defrag like there
were w/ W98.
My question in a nutshell is: Is there a way for me to repair the errors
in
the boot sector on this HD w/ it plugged in as an external drive to my XP
laptop (something like scandisk for XP) and then put it back into the
other
computer and have it boot up normally?
Otherwise I assume the only option is to reformat the drive w/ the
laptop,
in which case I would imagine that the bad sectors would be marked bad
and
would not be re-used. In the meantime I would just have to rescue
whatever
data I could using the external case and the laptop.
Then the other question is that the laptop uses NTFS. Can I install W98
on a
NTFS drive or would I need to have the option to format it FAT32 (and
does
XP offer that option)? I have a legal copy of W98 for the desktop machine
and that would be the way to keep everything legal. I have a system
restore
disk that will install W98 and all the stuff that the computer came with
on
bootup (supposedly). I don't mind using W98 on that machine. The only
real
reason I want to resurrect it is to run a copy of PhotoShop 7.0 with
ImageReady because it is a better program for web design than PhotoShop
CS3,
which I have on the other machine.
Thanks
.
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