I'm trying to help my parents with their computer. It keeps freezing.
They were running Windows 98se, so I sought to upgrade them to Windows
200 prof. At the point where the OS starts looking for installed
components, it freezes. Rebooting doesn't help, it just keeps freezing.
I tried
Diane:
Sounds like the File Allocation Table might have gone the way of the Dodo
but for the life of me I can't remember if it's possible to rebuild a FAT
without killing the data.
One thing I would suggest is try booting into pure DOS and see if you can
read off the disk. I have a utility
Thank you! I woulds love to try that utility. It makes sense that it
has a chance of working!
Diane
Ross Clutterbuck wrote:
Diane:
Sounds like the File Allocation Table might have gone the way of the
Dodo but for the life of me I can't remember if it's possible to
rebuild a FAT without
At 05:01 PM 3/31/2005, Diane Schips wrote:
I'm trying to help my parents with their computer. It keeps freezing.
Can you override the windows boot (F8) and get a full file directory at the
dos prompt? I believe there is also a way to run scandisk from dos, though
haven't done this myself. If
I've used that to recover some critical data before. It was a major pain but
it did get the file I needed. I don't know how well it would work for
recovering an entire drive.
I have seen utilities that would repair a master boot record without killing
the disk but I haven't need one in so long
Diane Cheryl
This doesn't sound to me like a Master Boot Record failure as the drive
cannot be read when slaved under a different OS. But Diane if you want to
try it, from a pure DOS command line try fdisk /mbr on the drive in question
to rebuild the Master Boot Record without damaging the
