RE: FW: A Senior Moment

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From: James H. E. Maugham (CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com)
Date: Sun Oct 01 2000 - 17:44:58 EDT


scosgt_at_att.net [mailto:scosgt_at_att.net] wrote:

> No, I think he was having a problem even booting from a
> boot disk, and I have a utility that will kill a
> partition with a bad table, so you can FDISK and format
> the drive.

It may come to that. I _finally_ got PM5 ERU disks to boot after making the
THIRD set as I was getting a "Media Error" message from the first two sets.

When I check the drive I get the message that the C: drive was improperly
dismounted and I should run CHKDSK/F from an NT boot. I'd be very happy to do
that, but I don't HAVE an NT bootdisk. The PM Dr. Dos utilities all work
_except_ CHKDSK, which says drive not ready for C:.

The ideal solution would enable me to recover some files from the HD but, in the
extreme, I would go with a HEXEDIT to kill the partition and start afresh. Too
bad Lost & Found doesn't work on NTFS drives. :-(

Of course, this _has_ to be the weekend my wife is without her 600 running NT4!

Thanks for all the help so far.

James


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