Re: disk error occurred

Thank you Malke,


you dont think FIXBOOT or FIXMBR would do any good?

and with regard to getting hold of the files i need, "taking ownership",
would that solve this problem i have of the files being hidden as they are
the user profile dir? how would i do that?


Andi

"Malke" wrote:

mumbles27 wrote:
to all

i see this has been coverd here but if you'd be so kind, i have a fwew more
questions about it.

My machine is a HP Compaq Notebook NX7010 running XP Pro with new 3 month
old Hitachi 160Gb HDD.

the boot has failed with the above error on start up after set up screen. I
have run the Hitachi Disk tool which tells me that the drive is fine. Also i
know this as i have taken the drive out and exteranlly attached it to another
machine and i can get most of the files off [except those under my login
username dir.. please see further down].

my questions are:

if i run FIXMBR, will it overwrite any dat on the drive? do i have a choice
in the matter?

will FIXBOOT do the same?

which if these 2 should i run first? and what is the difference between the 2?

lastly, if i do need to format and star tagain as i really really want to
avoid this as i have just completed it migrating everything from the machines
original disc to this one, how do i copy information from this HDD when it is
afixed as an external drive on another machine from dirs that have been
created under users names and these dirs have no access to them except for
that user when he/she is logged on? [sorry i dont know the specific
terminology of this locked dirs].

this is all information i have learnt while researching my problem so if
anyone has any great hints or tips to try or that i have missed please feel
free to enlighten me..

There is no point in doing all this with your hard drive. If the Hitachi
drive utility tells you that the drive is good - and you did a thorough
test, not just a 90-second test - then the problem is on the
motherboard. Contact HP tech support for repair/replacement since this
is a notebook computer.

Pull your hard drive out as you did before you send the machine back to
them (if you have to do this). You can access your documents from a
different computer with a working install of XP or Vista by taking
ownership of the files.

Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP [Q308421] -
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
How Do I Get the Security tab in Folder Properties? -
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_security_tab.htm


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: NTFS Security Issue
    ... Once you reinstall a new OS everyone will have access to all the files by ... So you dont have to take ownership. ... > various sources that because each user has a unique User ID dependant ...
    (comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.security)
  • Re: NTFS Security Issue
    ... Once you reinstall a new OS everyone will have access to all the files by ... So you dont have to take ownership. ... > various sources that because each user has a unique User ID dependant ...
    (comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.security)
  • Re: cant open or delete my documents
    ... > to open my dokuments it says that I dont have accrss to ... You need to take ownership of the files: ... MS MVP - Windows Shell/User ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Help XP Tricked me???
    ... ownership or what it did. ... All i know is that administrators can see each others my documents dir ... The popup was when i added a password to an account (with files in the ... I dont know what i should be reading up on cause im not sure what XP ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin)