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Josh1 Administrator |
posted December 29, 2005 06:37 PM
 
Yea I know what you mean, just let us know if you have any problems. ------------------ For every problem, there is a solution. Please give what you can to the Hurricane relief http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/giving/relief.asp IP: Logged |
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joemag7 Member |
posted December 27, 2005 11:52 PM
Thats cool, thanks. I would also hate to see or hear any profanitys in the way of 'you know who's' name. Thanks guys IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted December 26, 2005 08:26 PM
That is by design, unfortunately I cannot change that, I wish I could though. The *** when you type ******mas it filters out the word C h r i s t it also filters out profanity, but I do not know why it sensor his name. I think Chad (owner) might have it setup like that, because I do not have any option to change it in the Control Panel. Well to get to a command prompt you could try a boot disk, or use the same method when you want to get to safe mode. Expect when you get to the advanced boot menu go to command prompt only. Make sure you type the right file name that error indicates that the path was wrong or the file you typed is not on the disk. ------------------ For every problem, there is a solution. Please give what you can to the Hurricane relief http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/giving/relief.asp IP: Logged |
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joemag7 Member |
posted December 26, 2005 03:47 AM
Wow that's strange, I didn't mean to offend anyone, but when I typed in Merry X-mas(in the true way that it is stated) my response after submitted showed "Merry ******mas". Whats the deal with that? IP: Logged |
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joemag7 Member |
posted December 26, 2005 03:42 AM
I did like you said about working with DOS, went to the correct folder and typed in the executable file, but it just said that it doesn't recognize the command. I think my problem might be that I'm getting into DOS using the windows installation disc which i am guessing is not a true DOS(whatever that means), so I guess what my question is what do you do to get into DOS? Thanks -Joe and Merry ******mas IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted December 20, 2005 09:25 PM
Okay let us know how it goes. ------------------ For every problem, there is a solution. Please give what you can to the Hurricane relief http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/giving/relief.asp IP: Logged |
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joemag7 Member |
posted December 20, 2005 08:34 PM
I have XP loaded on both discs, the C drive is just a fujitsu IDE. I'll have to try messing around in DOS again tommorrow and I'll get back to you. Thanks for the input. -Joe IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted December 20, 2005 03:18 PM
Just a thought, maybe the repair process cannot see your C drive is because you have not pressed F6 to load the SCSI drivers for it try that. ------------------ For every problem, there is a solution. Please give what you can to the Hurricane relief http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/giving/relief.asp IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted December 19, 2005 10:20 PM
I don’t know if this program will fix the problem, but we can try. What other OS are you using? Okay in DOS the root directory is the letter before > so C:\ C is the root directory A:\ A is the root directory so you would type the name of the folder for instance F:\Footslog now I am in the footslog folder so lets say the executable is within the footslog folder so F:\Footslog\Footslog.exe press enter and the program should run. ------------------ For every problem, there is a solution. Please give what you can to the Hurricane relief http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/giving/relief.asp IP: Logged |
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joemag7 Member |
posted December 19, 2005 09:18 PM
Yeah I setup the dual boot so I could still use my computer, though the drive I am using right now is very small and will not fit all my programs. I can't even start the repair of XP on my C drive because it doesn't even show the c drive copy in the repair list, just the d drive copy which is working fine. After reading that article I think I will change my ways and use my SCSI drive for everything and the IDEs for backup, though since the IDEs are both fujitsu's I want to use that program to check them for problems so I know how safe my backup stuff is. So once you find a programs exact location in DOS how do you get it to run? Don't you just go into the directory where the program is located and then type the name of it, in this case 'fjdt.exe' and then press enter? Thanks -Joe IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted December 19, 2005 08:22 PM
So you have a dual boot setup? So you get to the screen where it asks you what OS do you want to load, you load XP and you get the error message about the missing file and the system halts? So then you booted off the XP disc in an attempt for a repair? If you did that at what point did the repair process stop? I am cannot tell you in all honesty that if you do that method of doing the bed sector it will stay good forever. PCI controller card would be faster then IDE but IDE has some features that are okay have a look at this http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/comp.htm You are welcome ------------------ For every problem, there is a solution. Please give what you can to the Hurricane relief http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/giving/relief.asp IP: Logged |
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joemag7 Member |
posted December 19, 2005 08:04 PM
The installation of windows on my C drive won't boot at all, I just get the error message on a black screen and have to hit enter key to reboot. I printed out the repair process from the link you gave me(thanks) Pretty easy to follow, and I have seen the screen before that he was talking about in the article from when I wanted 2 operating sytems, although for some reason this time the repair screen of previous installations of windows didn't show the faulty one on the c drive. It doesn't make any sense because from my working copy of XP on the d drive I can explore my c drive and see that everything is there that should be, and every time I reboot I get the OS choice screen, but of course if try to boot from the copy on the C drive I get the error message I mentioned, which also doesn't make sense because I compared the file it says is bad to the good one on my usable drive and according to size they look identical. About the other method, I'm not too worried about losing the information on that sector, just that if it is bad I want to disable it, so I can reinstall everything one last time and not worry about it crashing again. I am also thinking about putting my operating system and all my programs on my SCSI drive which I just use for storage, but my SCSI drive goes through my PCI bus. Would everything work as fast as the IDE bus if I set it up this way? Thanks -Joe IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted December 19, 2005 06:40 PM
Yes that is normal to see that many entries. So Windows totally crashed and you cannot get into windows? When you booted off the disk and pressed r, you were starting the repair process, have you completed the repair process? Try the repair process if you have not already. Then we can look at the other method. ------------------ For every problem, there is a solution. Please give what you can to the Hurricane relief http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/giving/relief.asp IP: Logged |
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joemag7 Member |
posted December 19, 2005 06:18 PM
Thanks for the info, I've never looked at the event viewer before. Is it normal to see 217 system events logged since last Friday? or do I have serious problems? Since the computer crashed I haven't been able to load Windows from that drive, so I just did a temporary install on my smaller drive that won't hold all my progams that I usually load. Is there any way to look at the event viewer for the Windows installation on that drive thats having problems? Another thing, I downloaded a fujitsu drive diagnostic program from MajorGeeks.com which needs to run from DOS, so I got into DOS the only way I know how, which is by putting in the windows CD and pressing 'r', I was able to get to the right directory on my E drive where the program is stored, but couldn't run the .exe program. It kept telling me 'bad command or filename' I think I just don't know what exactly to type to run a program in DOS, can you help? Thanks -Joe IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted December 19, 2005 02:51 PM
If something keeps on getting corrupt then you need to look at the source and the source would be the disk drive. XP has CHKDSK try that; you could try the method the other person suggested. I am not sure if there are any unreadable unrecoverable sectors on the disk drive and if you did run the program and the program does find some bad sectors and then deletes them, and if you had data on those sectors then you cannot get those back. Try this go to control panel-administrative tools-event viewer-system look for any errors from today’s date or the last time you had that error message, double click the log and tell if it has anything to do with a disk drive or volume. And here is the info on the repair http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/tips/doug92.mspx ------------------ For every problem, there is a solution. Please give what you can to the Hurricane relief [This message has been edited by Josh1 (edited December 19, 2005).] IP: Logged |
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joemag7 Member |
posted December 18, 2005 12:47 AM
So I spoke to someone today who is also pretty knowledgable about computers, who said that because this seems to be a consistant problem that I may have bad sectors on my hard disc. Does this sound like a possibility to you guys? I looked at the MajorGeeks website for a little bit to try and find some program that will check my disc for bad sectors and then make those sectors non-operational if there are any. I saw lots of stuff that might be what I am looking for, but want an expert opinion on what utility I want if even such a utility exists? Thanks Guys -Joe IP: Logged |
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joemag7 Member |
posted December 16, 2005 10:04 PM
I put XP onto my backup disc, and installed a few specific programs so I could finish doing what I was doing, but am now wondering if it would work to find the missing file in XP from my backup disc and copy it over to my regular operating system disc? IP: Logged |
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joemag7 Member |
posted December 16, 2005 05:51 PM
Well it happened again, I set my computer up this morning to do a few things while I was at work, which is usually okay, but when I got home I had the same screen I mentioned before; "cannot find WINDOWS/system32/config/system the file is either missing or corrupt. please install the setup disk and press r" Luckily everything important is on a different drive and backed up, I just really don't want to wipe the OS disc clean again and have to re-install my programs, so any info on how to repair it would be great. Hopefully Santa brings me a new setup.Thanks-Joe IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted December 12, 2005 02:17 PM
Okay did you complete the install? Would you like me to give you information on the repair install in case you need it again? ------------------ For every problem, there is a solution. Please give what you can to the Hurricane relief http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/giving/relief.asp IP: Logged |
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joemag7 Member |
posted December 10, 2005 05:32 PM
No I couldn't get into windows. I fumbled through DOS for quite a while before I finally gave up and just reformatted. Any information before hand would be appreciated, I typically push my computer too hard so I'm sure it'll happen again. Thanks IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted December 05, 2005 02:12 PM
Are you able to get into Windows? If not then we can walk you through the repair. ------------------ For every problem, there is a solution. Please give what you can to the Hurricane relief http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/citizenship/giving/relief.asp IP: Logged |
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joemag7 Member |
posted December 04, 2005 02:52 PM
My computer crashed last night; just all of a sudden restarted by its self, but when it tried to restart it came up with a screen that said "cannot find WINDOWS/system32/config/system the file is either missing or corrupt. please install the setup disk and press r" So I did what it said and pressed r with the setup disk, then it just brings up a DOS command prompt. I don't know how to speak DOS very well, and want to avoid reformatting, can you help? Thanks -Joe IP: Logged |
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