Re: Hard Drive failure on bootup
From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 07/08/04
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Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 05:54:25 -0700
George wrote:
> 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?
>
Frankly, if your system won't boot from the hard drive or the cd drive,
something is seriously wrong with the hardware, probably the
motherboard. Contact IBM Tech Support for help.
Malke
-- MS MVP - Windows Shell/User Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!"
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