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Old July 26th 04, 06:38 PM
alex
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Default power cut while defragmenting

I was defragmenting my hard drive using Speed Disk from
Norton Utilities 2002
when there was a power cut. When the electricity came back
on the computer
wouldn't boot to Windows Me, it advised me to start in
Safe Mode,
and when I try to do this it thinks for a moment then goes
straight to
"it is now safe for you to turn off your computer.
I used the Norton Utilities CD to run Disk Doctor without
going into Windows,
and it found a few problems, most of which I had had
before (missing shortcuts etc.)
and I pressed Y to fix these. It also found that the File
Allocation Tables
didn't match, and I pressed Y to fix them as well. It told
me to insert a
floppy disc to record the changes it was making. It
proceeded to fix the problem
but it fan out of space on the floppy disk and tried to
back out of the repair.
It then had a problem backing out as well. Sorry, but I
don't remember what it said exactly,
I was getting pretty flustered. I ran Disk Doctor again
and it found thousands
of lost chains (or something like that).
I'm sorry I am not very clear, I realize now I should have
written everything down.
I hope that someone has the time to work out what I mean.
There are some pictures on the
computer that I don't want to lose.
My computer is made by Dell, it has nearly 100GB hard
drive which was about 30% full.
 




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