chkdsk without recovery console

[JimC]

Hi,
I'm looking for a solution to the usual unmountable boot volume problem.

The recovery console does not see a hard drive and so running chkdsk is not
available. Is there another way to run this utility without the recovery
console? I've run a hard drive test which shows a single bad sector which
must be in the boot sector. Seems a shame to ditch the HD for a singlel bad
sector.

Any ideas really appreciated - as I've run out of them !
Cheers
Jim

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

FIXMBR is a utility you can run from that prompt. I'm not sure what will
happen, though, since you fail to see it.
FDisk, from a dos floppy (or bootable dos CD) boot would probably allow the
command
Fdisk /MBR
There are utilities like BootItNg that have a chance too.
http://bootitng.com
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[JimC]

Thanks Mark - looks a useful utility in the link you gave me but I found one
in my Hirens utilties which did the job, so all is well. For info, check out
: http://www.hiren.info/
Thanks for your help,
Cheers
Jim

 

[ju.c]

Download links for Hiren's BootCD can be hard to find, here you go:

Hiren's BootCD 9.5 95MB
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MRZ5ZNQ3 or
http://rapidshare.com/files/103272715/HB_CD_9.5_FULL.rar


I use this to run chkdsk from DOS:

NTFS4DOS Private is the only free for private usage tool that allows
unrestricted full read and write access to NTFS volumes. Thereby it is
the ideal solution for offline AV scanning, backups or it might be used
as an ERD solution.

NTFS4DOS Private is loaded as a simple program like a CD-ROM extension
and can coexist with any other tools like TCP/IP network, AV-Scanners or
ghosting software.

*****As a bonus you get an NTFS checkdisk application for DOS as well as
a defragmentation utility for any FAT/NTFS volume for DOS.

NTFS4DOS Private is from the same authors then the famous "CIA Commander
2" and "CIA DRiVE.net" recovery tool.

NTFS4DOS 1.8 1.12MB
http://www.freewarefiles.com/NTFSDOS-readwrite-NTFS-From-DOS_program_11100.html


ju.c

 

[JimC]

Yes - that's the utility I used NTFS4DOS - it gave me the opportunity to run
chkdsk as the first option - just perfect, it was a ureka moment !
Cheers,
Jim

 

[ju.c]

I posted links so anyone reading would have the extra info too.

Isn't Hiren's BootCD great!


ju.c