Summary: More likely scandisk "repaired" some clusters on the disk by "moving" them and using zero filled cluster as it could not read the bad one. If this hap...
Summary: I tried all the above with no luck. When I tried A:\Fdisk /MBR after 30sec it cam back with " The master boot code has NOT been updated" and returnes ...
Summary: Hi, I had some problem in running scan disk on my Windows95 machine. It tried to fix a file with longer name and failed do so and asked use scandis...
Summary: After using a FTPSDOS boot disk, I found a file I needed to copy (273kb) used the traditional MS-DOS method: copy filename a: And it appeared to copy ...
Summary: USBASPI 2.01 is actually problematic. I'm able to see my 128MB USB Flash Disk under pure MS-DOS 7.10 after using USBASPI 2.06 + DI1000DD, but not USBA...
Summary: here's what you wanted: Type ALT+F+X to exit Edit What's New for the Windows 98 Startup Disk? The Startup Disk has changed significantly for Windows 9...
Summary: I recently decided to reinstall windows on top of the current windows install... Why i decided that is a longer story but my main problem is this: I a...
Summary: I have a Toshiba Laptop computer with a 20 GB of Hard Disk, which is divided into four partition among which three are FAT32 including primary partiti...
Summary: I have a new computer with Win98SE. Suddenly, when shutting down to restart in DOS, the "C:\Windows" prompt is unresponsive to ENTER on the keyboard, ...
Summary: Unfortunately, after using the boot disk, and getting the a: prompt, type d: gets me: Invalid drive specification a:\> No problem getting a c: prompt,...
Summary: Load setver.exe in your config.sys by adding a line: devicehigh=C:\dos\setver.exe Check to see if you have it in the dos directory and change the path...
Summary: Actually, it is not required for you to have ANY files on a hard drive in order to change to it. A hard drive does not have to be bootable in order to...
Summary: mark, after using the information you gave me, i tried it with symantec ghost 7.5 (which is the same thing as norton 2002 basically) and it works gre...
Summary: Try using http://www.memtest86.com/ ... there is also a DOS version of an old MEMTEST86. You cannot return from any MemTest86 version to DOS, because ...
Summary: That's not the only thing DEBUG can do. First of all, it has access to your entire memory. A debug script have total access to the ENTIRE computer (so...
Summary: The hard drive is getting worn but you could try to follow Kevin's hint and fdisk to one partition. Then try formatting. Some clusters will be marked ...
Summary: 1st QUESTION: =============== DOES anybody out there know there I may/might download/get this himem/emm386 replacement ?? ===========================...
Summary: Using the fdisk/MBR option will rewrite your master-boot record on your hard drive. The only time I ever had to do this was once when I was unable to...
Summary: It should. There's a possibility of a boot sector virus remaining, but that can be taken care of using fdisk. Delete the existing partition, re-create...
Summary: Sometimes after use on a network, for security reasons, a hdd is protected. If the problem remains, suggest a low level format for the hdd which will ...
Summary: The only way to make it work under Windows ME is to either run it in a DOS window and accept the smaller window and poor resolution of the the charact...
Summary: I need to install WinXP from DOS after using Fdisk to partition and format. Never done this before and never worked in DOS. I have some printed inst...
Summary: .. well, that's great - although I wouldn't recommend your technique ;-) Now might be a good time to make sure all your important stuff is backed up ...
Summary: Try using the utility disk from the drive maunfacturer to write zeros to the drive. The same disk utility can also be used to create a new partition....
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