Harddisk problem please reboot?

Nz_Boy_2004 · 01-21-2005, 12:39 AM

Hi, im sorry to post a windoze question in a linux forum but this is for someone else there running windoze xp on a fat32(i kno) and its says hardisk damage or corrupt please reboot he reboots nothig happens it says it again etc, the problem is his whole work etc is on that hdd so wont to back it up etc i dont know much about windoze other then he has a boot disk and i kno you can repair things from that, what is the best way to back up his hdd and repair his hdd??

Thank You so much, Sam.

Mr.McCormick · 01-21-2005, 01:26 AM

the ezest why to back up data on a windoz machine is use knoppix and back up all the data on a another partition, hard-drive, usb pen drive, CD, floppy disk, that recovery console in the windows CD is useless to my experience

Nz_Boy_2004 · 01-21-2005, 01:48 AM

the problem is he wonts a large amount of data to be backed up not just lyk 512 mb on a usb pen be wonts lyk 10 gig kinda thing.

Lim45 · 01-21-2005, 02:00 AM

He could try booting from the XP disc, going into the recovery console ("r" at the prompt, from memory) and running the chkdisk utility. Have a look here for syntax, etc:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...us/chkdsk.mspx

Keep your fingers crossed!

Dave