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I am fixing a PC for a friend who had a problem with his pc not fully booting up, so i decided after backing up his files, to format the drive, and start from scratch.
The windows 98 setup program would not recognize the drive.
In dos i cant type FORMAT C:, it says that it is a bad command or file name. So i used fdisk to delete the primary partition, and then created another one. Then when i tried formatting in the same way it did not work, but the windows setup program formatted the drive, and then scandisked it, finding, and "fixing" all the errors.
I then installed windows on, and when it rebooted, when it normally would detect modems etc., it just would not load windows. So I reset, and booted in safe mode, this failed too, next time i booted, it scandisked, and said that a lot of files in the windows directory were bad and needed fixing, so it fixed them, and then windows loaded. It detected all the hardware, and then made me restart, only to get a different list of damaged files. Windows failed to boot in safe or normal mode. I have done this 5 times now, and it still comes up with errors, which i know arent the software, because it is the same CD windows was installed with previously, which worked fine, up until the problem occured, the errors i am getting are not the same as my friend did.
I decided to visit the manufacturers website, - Seagate, and see if i could find a piece of software to fix it. I thought a zero fill script, or complete formatter may do it, but i cant find one.
The other option would be a better version of scandisk or similar to identify the problems, any ideas?
Would that be the right approach?
Thanks Very Much
Chris Harkness
The windows 98 setup program would not recognize the drive.
In dos i cant type FORMAT C:, it says that it is a bad command or file name. So i used fdisk to delete the primary partition, and then created another one. Then when i tried formatting in the same way it did not work, but the windows setup program formatted the drive, and then scandisked it, finding, and "fixing" all the errors.
I then installed windows on, and when it rebooted, when it normally would detect modems etc., it just would not load windows. So I reset, and booted in safe mode, this failed too, next time i booted, it scandisked, and said that a lot of files in the windows directory were bad and needed fixing, so it fixed them, and then windows loaded. It detected all the hardware, and then made me restart, only to get a different list of damaged files. Windows failed to boot in safe or normal mode. I have done this 5 times now, and it still comes up with errors, which i know arent the software, because it is the same CD windows was installed with previously, which worked fine, up until the problem occured, the errors i am getting are not the same as my friend did.
I decided to visit the manufacturers website, - Seagate, and see if i could find a piece of software to fix it. I thought a zero fill script, or complete formatter may do it, but i cant find one.
The other option would be a better version of scandisk or similar to identify the problems, any ideas?
Would that be the right approach?
Thanks Very Much
Chris Harkness