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Cannot Progress Past Recovery Console
After a restart of Inspiron 8600 "Error loading operating system" occurred. Many hours and much reading (and rebooting) rebooted using OEM installation CD. On completion went into Recovery Console which completed with the command prompt ("C:"). Can list files on CD but a dir of C gives 'An error occurred during directory enumeration"; mkdir gives "Access denied". All the error messages cited in other similar posts occur!
I would like a solution that would hopefully retain the data on the HDD, Windows/Office updates/upgrades, etc. Backup is about a week old and was not complete as there have been problems with this process (while the subject of another post, 'Read/Write fail" errors are occurring with ntbackup using a Maxtor OneTouch 250GB external drive - it was the restart following one of these errors when the current problem occurred). You have probabaly guessed there is no current recovery backup disc.
Any solutions?
I would like a solution that would hopefully retain the data on the HDD, Windows/Office updates/upgrades, etc. Backup is about a week old and was not complete as there have been problems with this process (while the subject of another post, 'Read/Write fail" errors are occurring with ntbackup using a Maxtor OneTouch 250GB external drive - it was the restart following one of these errors when the current problem occurred). You have probabaly guessed there is no current recovery backup disc.
Any solutions?
Btq,
Maxtor Maxblast4 can be downloaded from here: http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.3c67e325e0a6b1f6294198b091346068/?channelpath=/en_us/Support/Software%20Downloads/View%20By%20Category/Desktop%20Storage/Maxtor%20Other/Utilities&downloadID=57
Creates a bootable MaxBlast 4 installation diskette.
Compatible with Windows 98SE, Me, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.
The copy feature lets you make an exact duplicate of your existing hard drive.
Maxtor "Powermax" drive diagnostics can be downloaded from here:
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm
For Maxtor and Quantum HDs. Will diagnose other HDs.Tony
Could not use MaxBlast as the external drive could not be found! After some more research decided to do a fixboot - which said the boot sector was corrupted and proceeded with repair. Rebooted and all seems to be okay - files in tact, etc.
Thankyou Tony for pointing me to the Maxtor pages - will use these to do a copy (just in case!) and run diagnostics.
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Posted January 15th, 2006 13:00
Message Edited by tgsmith on 01-15-2006 02:14 PM