From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 12 18:30:30 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA13651 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 18:30:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from footech.com (srv01.bigwheel.net [208.197.88.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA13645 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 18:30:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doug@footech.com) Received: (from doug@localhost) by footech.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA19014; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 18:30:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 18:30:23 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199902130230.SAA19014@footech.com> To: marko@uk.radan.com From: Doug Jolley Subject: Re: Corrupted partition Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Have you tried booting DOS on the first >drive and running CHKDSK or SCANDISK on the DOS partition on the >second drive? If not you could try this, it may be able to fix it. >I suspect Booteasy lives in the MBR, so you could probably try >formatting the DOS partition on the second drive WITHOUT ``/s''! >and then copying the files from the first drive (the _only_ system >files you need are IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, & COMMAND.COM). Perfect. That's exactly what I'm going to do (unless someone comes up with a really good reason why I shouldn't.) I'm going to run SCANDISK. Hopefully that will fix the problem. (The truth be known, I totally forgot that SCANDISK even existed.) If it doesn't, I'm going to re-format the partition (without /S) and put the system files on it. Hopefully, I will be able to boot it. Assuming that's the case, I'll copy the files from the mirrored partition on my primary drive and that should be the end of the problem. Thanks for the input. ... doug _____________________________________________________________________ Doug Jolley mailto://doug@footech.com http://www.footech.com Don't bogart that file, my friend. Net it over to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message