Hard Drive Corruption Problems
On this compaq i bought for $40 at a garage sale, i decided i'd reformat the hard disk so it is really my computer, that isnt flodded with crap i dont want.
This however, was a severe mistake. I still seem to be kinda n00bish, but i know more than my whole family does about computers.
my first mistake was not decompressing this drive before formatting. so, when i try to install windows, i get this problem about no hard disk found.
great. so, i use fdisk to create the C:\ drive. that was yet another mistake because now because i formatted while compressed, i have ruined the file structure of the drive. namley, win95 setup says i need to remove ntfs or hpfs. that could be a problem because it was compressed with fat32. so, i attempt to use dblspace to the hard drive. it says i need to move the application to the C:\ dirve, so i go back to the prompt, and something bad happens. "Invaild media type reading drive C:\" Abort, Retry or Fail. so, i i keep pressing rety for about 10 minutes until i gave up.
so, i decide to go down to computer surplus (my local computer store) and buy a hard drive. sounds easy enough... i bought a 2.5gb caviar hd and go back home to install the drive. i open up the case, and take out the HD shelf and unplug everything. plug in the HD and it starts up, and so i use fdisk to create C:\
so i do that, and then i insert the windows 95 cd into the banana. (haha.. banana cd-rom drive.) and i type
cd\win95
i get a prompt that says
R:\win95\>
so i type setup.
everything going smoothly until setup runs the disk checker.
setup found a compressed volume.
now, the guy up there said it was not compressed.
so, i try moving dblspace to the drive.
here is what i get:
Invaild media type reading drive C:\
Abort, Retry or Fail?
i press f and go watch inuyasha to ponder over this.
so 2 days later i take it back in to get it repired, and now i'm telling you this story.
my guess is that because i was trying to install win95a and the HD was over 2097.8 mb, it caused a malfunction.
if you don't think so, post your hypothesis, please, and tell me wether you think there is a way to save it.
This however, was a severe mistake. I still seem to be kinda n00bish, but i know more than my whole family does about computers.
my first mistake was not decompressing this drive before formatting. so, when i try to install windows, i get this problem about no hard disk found.
great. so, i use fdisk to create the C:\ drive. that was yet another mistake because now because i formatted while compressed, i have ruined the file structure of the drive. namley, win95 setup says i need to remove ntfs or hpfs. that could be a problem because it was compressed with fat32. so, i attempt to use dblspace to the hard drive. it says i need to move the application to the C:\ dirve, so i go back to the prompt, and something bad happens. "Invaild media type reading drive C:\" Abort, Retry or Fail. so, i i keep pressing rety for about 10 minutes until i gave up.
so, i decide to go down to computer surplus (my local computer store) and buy a hard drive. sounds easy enough... i bought a 2.5gb caviar hd and go back home to install the drive. i open up the case, and take out the HD shelf and unplug everything. plug in the HD and it starts up, and so i use fdisk to create C:\
so i do that, and then i insert the windows 95 cd into the banana. (haha.. banana cd-rom drive.) and i type
cd\win95
i get a prompt that says
R:\win95\>
so i type setup.
everything going smoothly until setup runs the disk checker.
setup found a compressed volume.
now, the guy up there said it was not compressed.
so, i try moving dblspace to the drive.
here is what i get:
Invaild media type reading drive C:\
Abort, Retry or Fail?
i press f and go watch inuyasha to ponder over this.
so 2 days later i take it back in to get it repired, and now i'm telling you this story.
my guess is that because i was trying to install win95a and the HD was over 2097.8 mb, it caused a malfunction.
if you don't think so, post your hypothesis, please, and tell me wether you think there is a way to save it.
Comments
-Q
PS. If you have another HDD it might not be a bad idea to stick that thing in and see if it's operable (Provded the steps above don't help).
then run fdisk again.
then format again.
Thanks for the help.
Now i need to find that AOL cd to put in the banana.
Try a secondary NTFS partition.
-Q
of data & partitions, in fact if you do a search on google you may just end
up with the full version like I did.
simple..
many other tools like Partion Magic.. an old dos partion manager like fdisk but with much more features
Partion Magic
http://www.dossolutions.pwp.blueyonder. ... pmagic.zip
enjoy..
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