password login on 95 crashed system, now reading a FAT error

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Cindy - 16 Mar 2004 03:11 GMT

I entered a login in name and a password then window 95 crashed. I can still access Dos

I've done a lot of work on it to bring it back now there are only 2 error messages left

1."Scandisk encounted a data error while reading the FAT on C. This error prevents scan disk from fixing the drive. " it does this message at 50% of the scan on C drive

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2. "Scandisk encounted a data error while reading the FAT entry for cluster 56440. This error prevents scan disk from fixing the drive." (this error is D drive.

Can any one make any suggestions

What I would like to do is be able to bring the program back up, copy my files, then reformat the whole thing

Thanks in advance

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Richard - 16 Mar 2004 17:16 GMT

Your entering a password login just happened to coincide with the failure.
It was not the cause of the failure. You have serious failure in your hard
drive.
You might try the following from a restart in DOS (not a dos prompt in
windows)
type in "fdisk/mbr" (without the quote marks)
If that does not fix it, you are looking at reformatting the drive as a
minimum and a new drive possible.
You might also try to run the scandisk from a bootable startup disk using
the "complete sector by sector check".

> I entered a login in name and a password then window 95 crashed. I can still access Dos .
>
> I've done a lot of work on it to bring it back now there are only 2 error messages left,
>
> 1."Scandisk encounted a data error while reading the FAT on C. This error prevents scan disk from fixing the drive. " it does this message at 50% of

the scan on C drive.

> second message
>
> 2. "Scandisk encounted a data error while reading the FAT entry for cluster 56440. This error prevents scan disk from fixing the drive." (this

error is D drive.)

> Can any one make any suggestions?
>
> What I would like to do is be able to bring the program back up, copy my files, then reformat the whole thing.
>
> Thanks in advance.

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Cindy - 17 Mar 2004 14:46 GMT

Thank you for responding Richard

Could you please tell me what you mean by a restart in dos

What I have been doing is starting the computer then pressing F8 to get a prompt

Thank you again

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glee - 19 Mar 2004 12:41 GMT

That is a restart in DOS....press F8, get the boot menu, and choose "Command Prompt Only".

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> Thank you for responding Richard,
>
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>
> Thank you again

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