Re: Hard Drive failure on bootup
From: George (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/08/04
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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 06:12:18 -0700
But isn't there any equivalent to the old way of booting
from a floppy, running FDISK, formatting the drive, then
installing Windows???
Thanks, Malke.
>-----Original Message-----
>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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