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Bill in Co.
Ooops, I meant SFC below, sorry about that, and corrected below.
MEB said:Bill in Co. said:One of the worst "quirks" about SFC in WinXP is just how limited it is,
both in choices, and in logging capabilities (like in comparison to any
Win9x). It really sucks. No real selection choices, and NO real
logs
(except sometimes some stuff can be found in Event Viewer - after you
sort it all out, and AFTER it has replaced whatever it felt like, carte
blanche,
no questions asked). SFC in WinXP is a step backwards, in many
respects.
I would tend to agree, but then even in Win9X I preferred to use DiskTune
and DiskMinder [from Nuts and Bolts] or other tools, at least until they
stopped working correctly [the suite of tools; the disk tools still work,
just tried that during the last test period].
I think, though, we tend to forget that XP was created to allow regular
non-techie people to use NT, and was limited to ensure they didn't mess
up
too much. Kind of like dumbing down the control, and placing it in
Microsoft's hands... just look at VISTA, even more *out of your hands*
unless you know what to do.
Yeah, tell me about it.
Franc Zabkar wrote:
Perhaps suggesting, but perhaps not necessarily. I have a 60 GB
Seagate HDD and i checked it with a different SMART viewing
program, DiskCheckup, in October 1996. It had 5 reallocated
sectors then and it still have 5 when i checked it with SMARTUDM
today. And that HDD have been used for several hours almost daily
in the 17 months in between.
BTW, i just downloaded SMARTUDM. It unarchived fine and the
DOS-program runs fine. However, the four text-files in the
archive show mostly as gibberish .. i tried a few different
text-editors, they all show it the same .. is it the same for you?
There are other disk tools which seem to work better/easier with NTFS and
NT5 file systems. Check out Testdisk, HDAT, and MHDD.http://www.cgsecurity..org/wiki/TestDisk_Download- now at version 6.9http://hddguru.com/http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/http://www.hdat2.com/
BTW Franc, you're part of the reason I posted that link for the non-GUI
Microsoft OS in here.
what will likely translate to the nex-gen/new processor base coding, for
what may be used in the non-legacy Windows. Kinda like the old DOS days and
downloading betas from Microsoft's BBS before it turned into the monster it
is ... (now if only they were paying the beta testers.. hahaha)
MHDD.http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download- now at versionThere are other disk tools which seem to work better/easier with NTFS and
NT5 file systems. Check out Testdisk, HDAT, and
BTW Franc, you're part of the reason I posted that link for the non-GUI
Microsoft OS in here.
what will likely translate to the nex-gen/new processor base coding, for
what may be used in the non-legacy Windows. Kinda like the old DOS days and
downloading betas from Microsoft's BBS before it turned into the monster it
is ... (now if only they were paying the beta testers.. hahaha)
Franc said:"... et al." put finger to keyboard and composed:
The language is Russian. The text files display correctly in my
browser, Opera, when I select "Cyrillic codepage 866" encoding.
| On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:49:15 -0400, "MEB" <meb@not (e-mail address removed)>
| put finger to keyboard and composed:
|
| >|
| >| On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:35:07 -0400, "MEB" <meb@not (e-mail address removed)>
| >| put finger to keyboard and composed:
| >|
| >| >|
| >| >| ... I now tried
| >| >| FIXMBR. This command warned me that the MBR contained unknown or
| >| >| damaged code, so I went ahead and allowed it to refresh the code. It
| >| >| reported success but when I ran FIXMBR a second time, it still
| >| >| complained of unknown or damaged code.
| >| >
| >| > First I would question whether you cold rebooted between the two
FIXMBR
| >| >[FIXMBR {ugh} which I found to be questionable when using] trys.
| >|
| >| I don't think I did.
| >
| > Kind of like fdisking a drive, gotta reboot.
|
| I can see why you would need to reboot before any newly created
| partitions and logical drives would be detected, but I can't see why
| you would need to do the same after refreshing the code in the MBR.
| AFAIK, the MBR code doesn't remain in RAM after booting ...
| - Franc Zabkar
And how does it do this when it has already been accessed upon bootup, and
found as faulty. The disk couldn't be accessed properly, so how can it now,
when the code and jumps were wrong to start with and have not been refreshed
yet.. You could see it with an editor, but the BIOS has already transferred
activity elsewhere [particularly in NT].
Are you indicating that there were no errors when attempting to access the
hard disk after doing so?
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| >| ... I now tried
| >| FIXMBR. This command warned me that the MBR contained unknown or
| >| damaged code, so I went ahead and allowed it to refresh the code. It
| >| reported success but when I ran FIXMBR a second time, it still
| >| complained of unknown or damaged code.
| >
| > First I would question whether you cold rebooted between the two FIXMBR
| >[FIXMBR {ugh} which I found to be questionable when using] trys.
|
| I don't think I did.
Kind of like fdisking a drive, gotta reboot.
I sent you, from the master site address, some zipped *readable text* of a
few files from XP PRO which might be of interest you [though you probably
already did]. Look at the command sequences, messages, and other. At
minimum, they give some search strings to work from when playing around in
XP and a hexeditor.
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| The following MSKB article identifies a FIXMBR bug in the Win2K
| recovery console, but I wonder if it applies to WinXP Home as well.
|
| Error Message When You Run fixmbr Command:
| http://support.microsoft.com/kb/266745/
|
| SYMPTOMS
|
| When you attempt to run the fixmbr command in the Microsoft Windows
| 2000 recovery console, your computer system may display the following
| error message:
|
| This computer appears to have a non-standard or invalid master boot
| record.
| MORE INFORMATION
|
| The fixmbr command causes this error message to be displayed on your
| computer system whenever you run the command, regardless of the state
| of the Master Boot Record (MBR).
|
| - Franc Zabkar
Yeah, I remember that one now, likely part of the reason I asked what
versions you ran, IIRC, there was an update for XP [or maybe included in SP1
or the DK] that was supposed to fix some of the old errors... another memory
sloshing around in the brain..
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