[Coco] PC Xp related

[mike delyea]

Sorry, (xp topic on the coco list - sheesh), you need to boot the XP
installation CD and select repair with the recovery console at the
welcome to setup screen.  Then run chkdsk /r after selecting the
windows installation to logon to (usually 1).

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Chuck Youse
<cyouse at serialtechnologies.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 07:54 -0700, Derek wrote:
>> On your DOS disk there should be a file called chkdsk. Boot to a: and type chkdsk c:
>>
>>
>>
>> You can also use chkdsk c:/auto to try and fix data corruption errors
>> and I believe chkdsk c: /surface will do a scan for physical errors on the hard drive and
>> then display them for you.
>>
>> If you run this and it says that it can not find C: then from your MS-DOS disk you can type sys c:. This will re-write the MS-DOS boot file on the hard drive and can give you access to your drive via DOS at least so you can back up data before doing an XP re-install. If it still will not see the drive then you are most likely looking at a having to delete and recreate the partition using Fdisk and then re-formating the drive.
>>
>>
>
> The reason he can't access his hard drive is because DOS won't assign a
> logical drive (e.g. 'C:') to partitions that aren't FAT16.  FAT32 and
> NTFS (the filesystems used by Windows XP) have different partition
> types.  Therefore DOS ignores them, and there IS no drive C:.
>
> Therefore neither 'chkdsk' nor 'sys' will work.  At best, you can
> repartition the drive, format it, and run a surface scan on the
> partition.  Or get a third-party tool/write a tool that either uses BIOS
> vector 13H or direct access to the IDE registers to perform the needed
> diagnostics.
>
> C.
>
>
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