Hard Drive failure on bootup

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From: George (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/08/04 

Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 04:37:19 -0700

Hi,

I have a message posted on July 7th at 9 pm looking for a
way to use SCANDISK or CHKDSK on a laptop hard drive with
a bad spot or two ... in the bootup area of Windows XP
Home Edition. Since my system won't boot from the hard
drive or from a CD (neither from the Thinkpad Recovery CD
nor from the Windows XP CD), I think I need to move to
the next level and consider using a floppy to run FDISK
and then reformat my hard drive. (The system IS backed
up ... yay.)

Since there's no FDISK on my XP Pro desktop (from which I
created a StartUp disk), is my only option using a
Windows 98 version of FDISK and FORMAT?

Thanks.

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