re: Windows XP start-up disk. HELP!!!!
Sunday, July 20, 2003 at 8:55 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by chicagojoel
(12 messages posted)
Ooops! I forgot to tell you that once you see the A:\ prompt, type C: and hit
enter/return and this will put you on drive C. THEN, you type scandisk, and hit enter/return.
On Sunday, July 20, 2003 at 8:32 pm, chicagojoel wrote:
>I have used windows 98 bootdisks on all versions of windows in order to get to the
>command line and have cd support. I was here 10 minutes ago and was about to tell
>you use it and run chkdsk from dos. I decided to try before suggesting it to you.
> It does work, but the floppy, and I guess XP as well needed scandisk. Anyway,
I
>ran scandisk on my C drive, found no errors. It offered surface scan as well.
If
>I were in your shoes, that's what I'd do--run scandisk by booting up off a win98
>bootdisk. (It's only one disk and super fast by comparison the the 6 XP needs.)
> If the scandisk program finds errors, say yes and let it fix them. If it doesn't
>find errors, run the surface scan that it will offer--hopefully your problem isn't
>the surface. Lastly, in a worst case scenario you will have to buy a replacement
>recovery cd from your cpu maker, although when I lost mine, during a move, I was
>surprised to find that they sell them on eBay. You'll have to call microsoft and
>tell them what happened, but as far as I know they make a limited charge for a new
>registration--all this assumes you have a key sticker or owners manual with the
25
>character key to provide to them. If all this sounds a little daunting--booting
>into dos, etc. Don't let it spook you. Here's a link to ease your worries
>href="http://www.pcdon.com/page82.html">http://www.pcdon.com/page82.html this
>is probably one of the easiest to understand pages on scandisk that I've seen in
>a while. The main thing is that Don tells how to get your problem fixed.
>
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