Posted by DAN on November 16, 19100 at 18:00:22:
In Reply to: fdisk option posted by tig on November 16, 19100 at 12:42:40:
MAKE A SEPERATE UTILITY BOOT DISK IN WIN98,,BY
CLICKING ON MY COMPUTER,,FLOPPY A:[ONLY HIGHLITE
IT] THEN FILE\FORMAT\FULL CHECKED AND NO LABEL
WHEN IT'S FORMATED REPEAT THE PROCESS ONLY COPY
SYSTEM FILES,, FROM THE DIR C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
COPY TO THE FLOPPY, ,,FORMAT.COM,,SYS.COM,,CHKDSK.COM,,
FDISK.EXE,,LABEL.EXE,,,SCANDISK AND FROM THE WINDOWS
DIRECTOORY,,COPY HIMEM.SYS TO FLOPPY,,
NEXT YOU NEED ON THE FLOPPY A [CONFIG.SYS] THAT HAS BEEN
EDITED TO ADD THE LINE
DEVICE=A:\HIMEM.SYS [NO SPACES]
BOOT WITH THE FLOPPY AND TYPE FDISK [SPACE]/MBR
AND HIT ENTER,YOU WILL SEE NO MESSAGE,,NOW REBOOT OFF
THE FLOPPY AND TYPE FDISK AND HIT ENTER,,DELETE ANY
PARTITIONS ,,AND THEN CREAT ANOTHER,,BE SURE TO MAKE IT THE
PARTITION ACTIVE USING OPTION 2 ,
REBOOT AND FORMAT THE FLOPPY BY,,FORMAT C:
IF YOU WONT IT BOOTABLE AT THIS TIME FORMAT C: [SPACE] /S
,,WHEN FINISHED REBOOT OFF THE FLOPPY AND
TYPE SCANDISK C:
HOPE THIS GETS YOU PART WAY THERE,,IT DOES SOUND AS YOU HAVE
A BOOT SECTOR VIRUS OR THE HARD DRIVE IS FAILING,,NEW
30 GIG HD�S CAN BE FOUND AT www.pricewatch.com FOR AROUND $30,,
BUT I ENJOY PLAYING WITH THEM,,ONE OF THE DISK UTILITYS
FOR FREE OFF THE MANUFACTORS WEB SITE CAN RESTORE THE DISK
TO ORIGIONAL STATUS,,BUT IT DOESN�T MARK ANY BAD SPOTS,,,
DAN
: My HD will sometimes fail to boot up...I suspect it's virus' deed. However first run of scandisk and then a virusscan did not turn up anything suspicious.
: But HD will fail to boot from time to time. So I finally decided to use FDisk. I just read in this Forum, one can use FDisk /mbr to erase the master boot; However, when I did a option list on fdisk that came with win98 (1st edition), it didn't seem to have this option.
: Anyway, when I recreated the partition and stuff...reboot the machine and tried to format the newly created partition, I kept getting the message "Trying to recover allocation unit #######". Does this mean the HD is breaking up? Or does this suggest the IDE cable is acting up?
: Aslo, this seems to tell me that the HD is partially bad, can I have format to bypass the recovering process? And I can still use whatever good space there are left? So to speed up the format process. The computer has been left running(recovering allocation units) for 2 days. =)