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sector not found reading drive c
I am getting a "sector not found reading drive c" error. The drive is only a
few months old and used Western Digitals utility to test it and found no errors. Scan disk found and corrected a few errors. Thought I would try sys c: from a boot disk but it gave me the following error: "could not copy command.com to target drive" I can still boot to a dos prompt and all my files appear to be intact so I was thinking about re-installing Windows98 2nd over the top as my next step. Could this possibly work or any other suggestions? I thought maybe fdisk/mbr but I don't think thats the problem if I can still see everything in dos? Thanks, GB |
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Personaly when I see activity like this from a HDD the first thing that
comes to mind is virus, the second is HDD failure, if you do not have a real need for the data on the drive I would use fdisk to delete all partitions, then reboot, fdisk again and create your partitons, follow the prompts and reboot. If you have to have the data then take it to a shop and pay them to retrieve what you need (this may or may not be possible), then slick the drive and start over. if the hardrive is bad then you may see fdisk have a problem verifying drive integrity and/or format may have problems during the format so read the summary at the end of format and observe fdisk all the way through the verify integrity portion (it will verify twice). "gbell" wrote in message news:roz6b.381464$uu5.72559@sccrnsc04... I am getting a "sector not found reading drive c" error. The drive is only a few months old and used Western Digitals utility to test it and found no errors. Scan disk found and corrected a few errors. Thought I would try sys c: from a boot disk but it gave me the following error: "could not copy command.com to target drive" I can still boot to a dos prompt and all my files appear to be intact so I was thinking about re-installing Windows98 2nd over the top as my next step. Could this possibly work or any other suggestions? I thought maybe fdisk/mbr but I don't think thats the problem if I can still see everything in dos? Thanks, GB |
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what size drive? and does your bios of the board support that size?
"gbell" wrote in message news:roz6b.381464$uu5.72559@sccrnsc04... I am getting a "sector not found reading drive c" error. The drive is only a few months old and used Western Digitals utility to test it and found no errors. Scan disk found and corrected a few errors. Thought I would try sys c: from a boot disk but it gave me the following error: "could not copy command.com to target drive" I can still boot to a dos prompt and all my files appear to be intact so I was thinking about re-installing Windows98 2nd over the top as my next step. Could this possibly work or any other suggestions? I thought maybe fdisk/mbr but I don't think thats the problem if I can still see everything in dos? Thanks, GB |
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