Re: Disk inaccessible


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Recovery Console only shows it as C:\ and the dir command returns
something like "directory missing or corrupt".

If it's installed as a slave drive it won't be C:. You'll need to
type
the drive letter at the prompt and press Enter or use the cd command.
To
get help on any command, type the command at the prompt followed by a
space and then type /?.

I should have made it clear that I returned it to the original single
drive
status to run Recovery Console.

It was originally a FAT32 drive with WindowsXP Home (OEM Family
Edition
in French).

If it's still FAT32 you could use a 98 boot disk to check its
contents in
DOS. The French part I can't help with.

Tried that but it would not recognise the drive.

I think you need the original CD to build a BartPE disk and we do not
have that.

Yes the installation files are needed and would be in the i386
folder.
During the creation of a BartPE CD it will search your HD's for the
installation files and if more than one location is found you will get
a
list to select from. If it doesn't find them then yes, you need the
original installation disk.

I have rather formed the impression that the drive is either partly
formatted or corrupted in a big way but whether this is through manual
interference or viral attack I don't know.

brianf

Hello,
This site may be of some use:
http://www.shockfamily.net/cedric/knoppix/#ntfs

You can download a Knoppix boot disk, use the first link on the right
side of the page.
Read the information at the Shock Family Site.

Well it sounds great in principle but ... these university geeks really do
live in a world of their own. You think you're going to be presented with
one file to download but no; you get a great hierarchy of bewildering file
names and no explanation of just how to go about it in simple language.

What help files there are are wiritten in a superior tone that more or
less says, "If you don't know how to do it, you shouldn't be here."

I concluded that I needed to download one of the 'big' files and burn it
to CD. First problem was I only had 650MB CD-Rs and this file is 696MB so
I had to go out to buy some high capacity CD-Rs (no CD-RWs available).

Second problem, I burned the ISO file to CD but it didn't boot. So I went
to the Knoppix FAQ where it tells me Windows doesn't burn in the right
format for ISO image files. (Why didn't it say that earlier?) It says you
should see the file hierarchy on the disk rather than just a copy of the
downloaded file.

Third problem, I used Deep Burner which does have the 'Burn ISO image'
option. The resultant second coaster does not boot either and windows says
it cannot identify any files on this CD.

I am taking a rest at this point.

To continue the saga - I decided to download an alternative burner called
Active ISO. This again looked promising because it has a selection of burn
speeds and the Knoppix FAQ says to burn at the lowest possible speed. All
seemed to be going well at 1x until around 50% of the burn had completed,
when suddenly an error menu popped up saying that the operation could not be
completed. I checked what was on the disk using Windows Explorer and a
number of folders and files were there. So, I tried rebooting with it. That
worked - whoopie! - and displayed a lot of coloured text on a black
backgound introducing and explaining the Knoppix program. It listed my
hardware and stated that it could not find the Knoppix CD. Hardly surprising
as only 50% had been downloaded. So, despite the progress, I had yet another
coaster.
I decided that perhaps this failure was just a one-off and that I would have
another try. This time, the burn went through to completion. However, it
produced yet another unreadable CD.

Meanwhile, I had run the MD5 checksum verifyer on the downloaded file and it
seemed 100% OK.

What on earth could be wrong?

brianf


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