On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 05:57:41PM +0000, Richard Baker wrote: > My sister just switched on her Windows PC and it went into ScanDisk. > Being impatient, she selected "Exit" and then it popped up a screen > saying that her Windows license has been revoked and she's in > violation of the DMCA. Whenever we try booting it does the same. She > can't find the Packard Bell recovery CD that came with the machine > and doesn't have a Win98 install CD. Is there anything she can do to > restore the previous state of the machine?
That depends on what caused the Scandisk run in the first place. Scandisk will run if it detects that the machine was not "shut down properly" or if some other disk problem is detected. If the hard drive is badly corrupted, then you have to decide how much recovering the data is worth to you/her. There are services that will go to extremes (think clean rooms full of expensive equipment) to get data off, but as you might guess, this is expensive. If the damage isn't that bad, you might just try booting up into an alternative OS, such as MS-DOS, and copying the files somewhere safe. If you don't have a boot disk, you could try http://www.bootdisk.com/ Or you could buy one of the commercial disk utility programs out there. I'm not familiar with those, so I can't make any recommendations. I'm much more familiar with Linux tools (if I were in your sister's situation, I would boot up with something like Knoppix and use Linux tools to diagnose and work with the Windows disk, but then I'm a Linux geek so that probably wouldn't be so efficient for her) -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
