Boot to DOS

Post #11,797 by ChrisR 10/4/01 2:45:19 PM Reply	Boot to DOS And run the DOS version of scandisk.
Post #11,906 by bconnors 10/5/01 10:13:55 AM Reply	I don't have the DOS version of Scandisk All of our machines here at work are NT 4.0, and the "Find" function doesn't see any file called "Scandisk.*" anywhere. What did M$ change the name of Scandisk to under NT? I could try running that instead. BConnors "Prepare for metamorphosis. Ready, Kafka?"
Post #11,953 by Silverlock 10/5/01 2:01:48 PM Reply	Formatted how? If it is NTFS, you are are going to need a special boot floppy in order to access the hard drive. Not cheap. Unless the open source community has something or you can find a shareware product, the one I know about costs around $250. [link\|http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/ntfsdospro.asp\|[link\|http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/ntfsdospro.asp\|http://www.winterna...fsdospro.asp]] For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong H. L. Mencken, Mencken's Metalaw
Post #11,981 by bconnors 10/5/01 3:39:12 PM Reply	FAT16 This company is "trailing" edge, nothing near "leading" or even "bleeding" edge. Most everybody here is NT 4.0, SP4, like my machine. So what did the microbrains in Redmond call ScanDisk under NT? BConnors "Prepare for metamorphosis. Ready, Kafka?"
Post #11,987 by Silverlock 10/5/01 4:27:30 PM Reply	Doesn't matter If it's FAT16, just get yourself over to a 95/98 box, make a boot floppy and copy the scandisk of the box to the floppy. If that still doesn't do it, take Ashtons excellent advice and get a copy of spinrite. For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong H. L. Mencken, Mencken's Metalaw
Post #12,047 by static 10/6/01 2:06:54 AM Reply	chkdsk I know chkdsk got a bad name but that was just the DOS version. The NT version should be much better, but I don't know what it's like on FAT16 partitions. Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #12,066 by Andrew Grygus 10/6/01 12:20:03 PM Reply	Heck, with FAT16 you could use any chkdsk . . . . including the DR-DOS and OS/2 chkdsk. For FAT32 I have a Win95 boot disk with the MS-DOS 7.0 Scandisk. That will work with FAT16 too. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]

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