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re: IOS Error Message
Monday, September 5, 2005 at 5:38 am
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Lynn
(1 messages posted)
Hi Jerry,
Read this thread with interest, having the same problem although the machine was
upgraded to 98SE,
I followed all of your suggestions and ended up with the message 'Scandisk cannot
examine drive C'.
Am I correct in thinking this means the hard drive is damaged? and if so is there
any way of retrieving the data on the machine or am I now going to wish I had finished
transferring everything to my new machine!
Would appreciate any help at all.
Lynn
On Friday, September 2, 2005 at 3:31 pm, Jerry wrote:
>Hi Caroline:
>
>OK -- Windows is broken -- let's take a look at
>what is there and isn't there from the OUTSIDE.
>
>If you don't already have a BOOTDISK (a floppy
>disk with DOS on it), go here:
>
>href="http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm">http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
>and download the "Windows 95 Version B" file to
>the desktop of a working computer. A file called
>BOOT95B.EXE will appear on the desktop.
>Double-click on it, and follow the directions. It
>will have you put a BLANK floppy disk in the
>floppy drive of the "good" computer, and it will
>create a bootable floppy disk with DOS and several
>useful files. When it finishes,
>
>Put the new floppy BOOTDISK in the broken computer
>while the power is OFF, then turn the power ON
>with the bootdisk already in place.
>
>You'll see some messages on the screen. If you
>have a CDROM drive, you should see a message that
>says something about a BANANA. When it stops, you
>should see:
>
>A:\>_
>
>Now, go back to my last message about how to run
>SCANDISK, and follow the directions starting with
>"Type SCANDISK C:"
>
>Post back here and let us know how it goes, then
>we'll go from there. If the Scandisk runs
>successfully, and the hard drive doesn't seem to
>have major physical problems, we can explore it
>more using DOS running from your new BOOTDISK,
>which you will keep handy for ever and ever.
>
>Jerry
>
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- re: IOS Error Message (Jerry: Friday, September 2, 2005 at 3:31 pm)
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