Re: Continuous Restarts

From: Todd J Heron (todd_heron_no_spam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:45:18 -0400

If you could reboot the *bad partition* OS to an ERD Commander 2003 and run
a CHKDSK it might fix the problem. Otherwise, boot with the OS CD, select
to boot to the Emergency command console and run CHKDSK from there. Use the
/F and /R switches together:

chkdsk /f /r 

-- 
Todd J Heron, MCSE
Windows 2003/2000/NT
"tinman" <joker@wizebid.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1bc4a1525a8e9b19989681@news.microsoft.com...
> Thanks Dave,
>
> I tried your suggestion, but was unable to load the hive.  It gave me a
generic error saying
> so.
>
> So I went to the Event Log and there were numerous disk io badblock
errors.
>
> Ran a check disk and am seeing that a couple of registry files, including
system, had bad
> blocks replaced.
>
> I guess this explains my problem, hopefully I can replace them and limp
along.
>
> Thanks again,

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