Verifying DMI Pool Data

[Manuel]

I know that is a nasty message from the system.

I tried "sys c:" no success
I tried "fddisk /mbr" no success as well
any suggestion will be very welcome...


Verifying DMI Pool Data

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Manuel.

Why do you think that is "a nasty message"? "Verifying DMI Pool Data" is
quite normal; healthy computers often display this as a part of the boot-up
process - BEFORE beginning to load Windows. So, if there is a problem at
all, it is in the computer hardware or BIOS, not in Windows.

Why would you try either "sys" or "fdisk" on a Win2K system? Those are both
MS-DOS commands, which is not a part of Win2K.

What is your actual problem? Does your computer hang with this message
onscreen?

Are you running Win2K? What kind of computer are you running?

RC

 

[manuel]

Thank you very much for replying to my message. That box
just hang with that message. The OS on it is W2k and I
went to different website suggesting to do sys c: or
fdisk /mbr but no success.

OS Windows 2000
Close Machine.
20 gig

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Manuel.

Sys C: will replace your Win2K boot sector with the MS-DOS/Win9x/ME-style
boot sector. You will then be unable to boot into Win2K. And, if your
Drive C: is formatted NTFS, the command won't work, because MS-DOS can't
write to an NTFS volume.

FDISK also is an MS-DOS program. It MIGHT work. But a better tool is to
boot from the Win2K CD-ROM and use the Recovery Console to do whatever needs
to be done to your hard drive.

But, as I said, the DMI message happens BEFORE WINDOWS EVEN STARTS TO LOAD!!
It's NOT a Windows problem. The problem is in your computer hardware, not
software.

RC