Re: CHKDSK found errors

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From: Jim (wdxp_at_cox.net)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 02:50:33 -0500

Hello GTS;

I sure would be interested in your results, and your last effort saved
me some grief, as that is just what I was going to try until I saw
your message.

I am waiting to see how you make out with the USB drive using
NTBACKUP, please keep us posted on your results.

There is another possibility I'm thinking of that was mentioned in the
Comp.sys.laptops newsgroup. One of the regulars there said that if
your Windows directory has the I386 folder in it, you can completely
reinstall windows from that folder by burning it to CD, then running
the install from that folder. I don't know if it will re-install
Windows exactly as it was before the install, or as it was as new, but
it may work with your next plan of attack. That is, you could make a
NT BACKUP to your external drive, then re-format the C: drive,
re-install windows from the I386 folder, then do a restore from
Windows. I wonder if that would work?

Anyway, please keep us posted, it will avoid duplication of effort.

Jim

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 22:24:56 -0400, "GTS" <x> wrote:

>Jim,
>
> I'm in the middle of a very similar situation on a clients laptop and have
>tried a lot of the same actions and then some. In addition to recovery
>console, etc., I put the drive as a secondary in another machine where I ran
>chkdsk against it with various options, with no success. It always ends up
>with the same uncorrectable errors. I had also made an image backup (with
>DI), reformatted, and restored the backup ending up with the same errors.
>It makes sense that an image type backup might carry file system errors with
>it.
>
> Here's what I plan to do next. I made a backup with system state to a
>USB drive using ntbackup. I'm going to reformat again, reinstall Windows
>(minimally), and then restore that backup. Since that kind of backup is
>file based, rather than sector based like the imaging programs, I'm
>thinking there's a good chance it may restore the system without recreating
>the file system errors.
>
> It seems clear that there are some kinds of file system errors that
>chkdsk just can't resolve. I don't know whether there are any third party
>tools that would work in that situation. Am looking into that question too.

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