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December 12th 03, 07:18 PM
I suspect that the "format" reply might not have been
serious, but if it's necessary, it'll teach "your friend"
not to be so careless with his investment. Then, he needs
to protect his investment by getting a UPS. You can get
one for as low as $50 that'll be good enough to get you
through a goof-up or blown circuit breaker or brownout.
It's really an important thing to have, because you can't
control the weather. Or the drunk driver knocking down a
light pole 2 blocks away. And your friend's seeing how
destructive his sloppy actions are. He doesn't get drunk
and knock down light poles, does he?
He might be able to get away with reinstalling without
formatting. Then, the system files will be overwritten
with fresh copies, and that might be enough to get you
(him) up and running enough to finish running Scandisk.
Then again, there might be so many files corrupted that
it's not even worth your time to try fixing them all, and
the format and reinstall is actually the fastest and most
painless solution.
>-----Original Message-----
> I'm posting this for a friend who kicked his power
strip
>on several occasions and interrupted the power to his box.
>Now his 2.6 GHz P-4 machine with 256MB RAM, running
Windows
>XP Home edition, always starts up by running CHKDSK.
>
> CHKDSK can't handle all the errors it finds (gobs
of 'em
>-- file segment unreadable, file segment index damaged,
>re-indexing index $I03 in file segment xxxxxx) and aborts
>during step 2 of 3. Then XP starts up, but it runs REALLY
>SLOW...
>
> What can be done to correct this problem? Please
advise.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dennis
>.
>
serious, but if it's necessary, it'll teach "your friend"
not to be so careless with his investment. Then, he needs
to protect his investment by getting a UPS. You can get
one for as low as $50 that'll be good enough to get you
through a goof-up or blown circuit breaker or brownout.
It's really an important thing to have, because you can't
control the weather. Or the drunk driver knocking down a
light pole 2 blocks away. And your friend's seeing how
destructive his sloppy actions are. He doesn't get drunk
and knock down light poles, does he?
He might be able to get away with reinstalling without
formatting. Then, the system files will be overwritten
with fresh copies, and that might be enough to get you
(him) up and running enough to finish running Scandisk.
Then again, there might be so many files corrupted that
it's not even worth your time to try fixing them all, and
the format and reinstall is actually the fastest and most
painless solution.
>-----Original Message-----
> I'm posting this for a friend who kicked his power
strip
>on several occasions and interrupted the power to his box.
>Now his 2.6 GHz P-4 machine with 256MB RAM, running
Windows
>XP Home edition, always starts up by running CHKDSK.
>
> CHKDSK can't handle all the errors it finds (gobs
of 'em
>-- file segment unreadable, file segment index damaged,
>re-indexing index $I03 in file segment xxxxxx) and aborts
>during step 2 of 3. Then XP starts up, but it runs REALLY
>SLOW...
>
> What can be done to correct this problem? Please
advise.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dennis
>.
>