Compatible Support Forums: chkdsk fails - even after booting from Acer supplied cd-rom recovery disk

Jump to content

Page 1 of 1
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

chkdsk fails - even after booting from Acer supplied cd-rom recovery disk

#1 User is offline   graviton6 

  • stranger
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 3
  • Joined: 08-January 05

Posted 08 January 2005 - 05:08 AM

my acer TM 420 crashed and caused some damage to the c: drive it would appear. i'm trying to reboot via the vendor supplied cd-rom; booting from this cd doesn't grant access to the 'recovery console' but to some acer specific application which allows xp to be re-installed. problem is - even after xp is reinstalled, the boot sequence hangs on a driver file

agp440.sys

which i believe is used by the ATI graphics board (which i believe is damaged and is the cause of the crash). anyway, i can get into dos mode and get onto the c: drive but running 'chkdsk' returns 'command not found' etc.

as a result of the crash, the C:\ directory is screwed up - it contains no 'visible' files. since even 'chkdsk' doesn't work, looks like some basic files are missing or corrupt. ideas as to how to get chkdsk to work? thanks.

0

#2 User is offline   graviton6 

  • stranger
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 3
  • Joined: 08-January 05

Posted 08 January 2005 - 05:34 AM

the OS is currently XP - r u suggesting installing another instance of xp in another folder or NT in another folder?
0

#3 User is offline   graviton6 

  • stranger
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 3
  • Joined: 08-January 05

Posted 08 January 2005 - 07:35 AM

thanks - i'll give it a shot.

0

Share this topic:


Page 1 of 1
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

1 User(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 1 guests, 0 anonymous users