Boot Problem 1

[EnemyGateIsDown]

Hi Guys..

I usually keep my main server on constantly and a couple of nights ago i came an found that it was off .. when i booted it I got an error...

I want to do a scandisk from a bootable cd to remove the open file errors that I get when I try to do a windows repair. Does anyone know where I can get an image for a bootable CD with useful disk utilities including scandisk?

Any help is as always greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Chris

 

[BadBigBen]

HiRen's BootCD has useful utilities onboard, albeit I do not know if it is totally legal...

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hiren.thanki/bootcd.html

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[wolluf]

BartPE? (Google for it).

Which o/s are you running? (because 2k/xp/2k3 install disks can all be booted into recovery console - repair option, where you can run chkdsk and other options. If older - ME/9x, then an ME/9x boot floppy will let you run scandisk).

Or you could slave the drive in another machine.

btw - what was the error (eg, was it missing/corrupted file, like \windows\system32\config\system/?)

 

[EnemyGateIsDown]

Hi BadBigBen

Thanks for the info. It looks like the disk will do exactly what I want. I think I may be being a bit dense here but looking through the page you linked to I cant find a download for it?

Can you point me to the right bit?

Cheers

Chris

 

[BadBigBen]

@EGID - Sorry, I thought there was a DL link on that page... was awhile back... well, here is a BLOG adress which will lead you further...

http://maxt.dk/archives/2006/05/20/hirens-bootcd-81/

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[EnemyGateIsDown]

Hi BigBadBen,

I downloaded Hirems CD and as you say there is a stack of tools on it which I am sure will do the job. However when I choose an option it fails when trying to load a CD driver. It tries OAKCDROM.SYS first which fails and then ATAPICD.SYS which also fails.

I have tried setting the boot devide as being both my DVD Writer and my CD writer drive... any ideas how I can resolve this ?

Thanks for all your help.

Chris

 

[BadBigBen]

EGID - I am afraid you may have burned the CD too fast... try burning it at the SLOWEST rate possible (this is the speed I usually burn all important CD's as it ensures the DATA gets correctly burned)

Though, I am not too sure about that, but I used an older version of the CD a while back (1 1/2yrs ago) and it was, pop in boot up straight, then you chose your weapons of attack ( ) and it went from there...





Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[wolluf]

Chris - did you check out any of my suggestions. If you just want to run scandisk (do you mean chkdsk), as I said you can run chkdsk from recovery console (2k/2k3/XP) or scandisk from win 98 boot floppy (if fat32 filestore).

And the BartPe disk provides a very good windows rescue environment (assuming you have a copy of 2k/2k3 to build it from).

 

[EnemyGateIsDown]

Thank BigBadBen I will try burning slower.. although it didnt seem to be a corruption issue as I was able to get to the initial menu to choose the tool but in each case it creates a 50mb ram disk and then tries to load a cd driver which failed.. but as you suggest I will try burning at a slow rate and see if that helps.

Wolluf, I am running Win XP and when I try to run check disk it just essentially says that I should use scandisk (almost as if check disk is only included for legacy support and has been superceeded by scan disk)..

Thanks for your help so far I will let you know how i get on with the re-burn.

Cheers,

Chris

 

[wolluf]

Chris - something up here. Scandisk is NOT a win XP utility. The utility is chkdsk (not check disk). If you run chkdsk from a command prompt within windows on the system drive in fix or repair mode (ie, chkdsk c: /f or chkdsk c: /r), it should prompt you to allow it to run when windows restarts (this includes doing this in safe mode). From recovery console, the command line is slightly different - chkdsk /p or chkdsk /r.

From within windows you can just run chkdsk, no parameters - read only run - should tell you if there are problems and it needs to run in fix or repair mode.