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Can't boot win98! Sectors not found Dos error, right?
Can't boot win98! Sectors not found Dos error, right?
I've posted before about the problems I've had booting to win98SE, after I used Easeus*** to shrink the win98 partition, and I've made progress**, and I can now boot to Win98 DOS. But I get a DOS error if I try to do much when I'm there. If I try to continue on to the Windows of win98, it loads a lot of the things it is supposed to load, but eventually I get Sector not found reading drive C: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? If I use the Win98 boot menu and only load DOS, I get a similar sector error when I try to Edit many but not all normally editable files in the win98 partition. Like .txt, .bat, and .ini files. I can provide more details if necessary, the exact text of the error message Edit gives, the files that I can edit versus the ones I can't, the log of my boot attempt, the error messages when trying to do a step-by-step start of win98, whatever you want, but maybe this is enough. Any suggestions what is wrong? Help is much appreciated. **Background. I have multi-boot with win98 in partition C: and winXP in partition D:. Everything was fine afaik until I used Easeus partition software to shrink the win98 partition. At that point, I could get to the multi-boot menu but couldn't reach win98 at all. People on the XP newsgroup showed me how to SYS C:, then use DOS Debug to copy the C: boot sector to bootsect.dos, then to use the XP Recovery Console FIXBOOT C: to restore the C: bootsector back to what it was, that is, so it points somehow to the boot.ini, the multi-boot menu. After that, I could boot to winXP or to the DOS of Win98. *** I'm 99% sure that Easeus Partition Master got me into this mess. I also found someone else who said it caused no-start with win98. It runs under 2000, XP and newer, but it didnt' say it couldn't handle a winw98 partition while doing so. I"m sure it will do fine, running out ot XP, with FAT32 etc. when the partition is empty, but it seems that the boot sector varies with the OS, according to Partition Manager 8, and they wrote that when there was no reason to exaggerate. That is, I don't think there was much competition that didn't also fully support win98. |
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Can't boot win98! Sectors not found Dos error, right?
So you do not Run a Defragmentation first
And when you shrink the win98 partition you shrink pass the files on that Sectors! For your Files are all over the Free space of the Hard Drive you have the Defrag first to move them out of the free space! plus Remember that windows files that can not be move and shrink pass one of those files the Same Error will come up! And you will not be able to repair it, So I hope you back up1 |
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Can't boot win98! Sectors not found Dos error, right?
On 10/18/2010 09:52 PM, mm wrote:
Can't boot win98! Sectors not found Dos error, right? I've posted before about the problems I've had booting to win98SE, after I used Easeus*** to shrink the win98 partition, and I've made progress**, and I can now boot to Win98 DOS. But I get a DOS error if I try to do much when I'm there. If I try to continue on to the Windows of win98, it loads a lot of the things it is supposed to load, but eventually I get Sector not found reading drive C: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? Typically due to a hard-drive failure run the HD mfg's diagnostic or try a different hard-drive |
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Can't boot win98! Sectors not found Dos error, right?
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:21:55 -0500, philo wrote:
On 10/18/2010 09:52 PM, mm wrote: Can't boot win98! Sectors not found Dos error, right? I've posted before about the problems I've had booting to win98SE, after I used Easeus*** to shrink the win98 partition, and I've made progress**, and I can now boot to Win98 DOS. But I get a DOS error if I try to do much when I'm there. If I try to continue on to the Windows of win98, it loads a lot of the things it is supposed to load, but eventually I get Sector not found reading drive C: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? Typically due to a hard-drive failure run the HD mfg's diagnostic Well, last time I looked about a week ago, my 80gig WD drive was listed as healthy. Just now I ran WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostics, and every attribute passed, by a large margin. What next? or try a different hard-drive That will take time. Thanks. |
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Can't boot win98! Sectors not found Dos error, right?
philo try not to give Info
Put the partition Back as it was ... And maybe if god will you can save it.. Restart and if win98 runs Defrag Afterwards resize you partition! |
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Can't boot win98! Sectors not found Dos error, right?
Put the partition Back as it was ... And maybe if god will you can save
it.. Restart and if win98 runs Defrag Afterwards resize you partition! "Hot-Text" wrote in message ... So you do not Run a Defragmentation first And when you shrink the win98 partition you shrink pass the files on that Sectors! For your Files are all over the Free space of the Hard Drive you have the Defrag first to move them out of the free space! plus Remember that windows files that can not be move and shrink pass one of those files the Same Error will come up! And you will not be able to repair it, So I hope you back up1 |
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Can't boot win98! Sectors not found Dos error, right?
"mm" wrote in message ... Can't boot win98! Sectors not found Dos error, right? I've posted before about the problems I've had booting to win98SE, after I used Easeus*** to shrink the win98 partition, and I've made progress**, and I can now boot to Win98 DOS. But I get a DOS error if I try to do much when I'm there. If I try to continue on to the Windows of win98, it loads a lot of the things it is supposed to load, but eventually I get Sector not found reading drive C: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? If I use the Win98 boot menu and only load DOS, I get a similar sector error when I try to Edit many but not all normally editable files in the win98 partition. Like .txt, .bat, and .ini files. I can provide more details if necessary, the exact text of the error message Edit gives, the files that I can edit versus the ones I can't, the log of my boot attempt, the error messages when trying to do a step-by-step start of win98, whatever you want, but maybe this is enough. Any suggestions what is wrong? Help is much appreciated. **Background. I have multi-boot with win98 in partition C: and winXP in partition D:. Everything was fine afaik until I used Easeus partition software to shrink the win98 partition. At that point, I could get to the multi-boot menu but couldn't reach win98 at all. People on the XP newsgroup showed me how to SYS C:, then use DOS Debug to copy the C: boot sector to bootsect.dos, then to use the XP Recovery Console FIXBOOT C: to restore the C: bootsector back to what it was, that is, so it points somehow to the boot.ini, the multi-boot menu. After that, I could boot to winXP or to the DOS of Win98. *** I'm 99% sure that Easeus Partition Master got me into this mess. I also found someone else who said it caused no-start with win98. It runs under 2000, XP and newer, but it didnt' say it couldn't handle a winw98 partition while doing so. I"m sure it will do fine, running out ot XP, with FAT32 etc. when the partition is empty, but it seems that the boot sector varies with the OS, according to Partition Manager 8, and they wrote that when there was no reason to exaggerate. That is, I don't think there was much competition that didn't also fully support win98. Did you make a backup before changing your partition size? If not, you need to stop making changes to it and get another HD and data recovery software to salvage what you can to another HD. Do not boot to the XP partition as the more you do that, then the less likely you will be able to recover anything. If you do have a backup, then I would use the HD mfr's diagnostics disk to requalify the HD before restoring it. -- Todd Vargo (Post questions to group only. Remove "z" to email personal messages) |
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Can't boot win98! Sectors not found Dos error, right?
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:20:01 -0400, "Todd Vargo"
wrote: "mm" wrote in message .. . Can't boot win98! Sectors not found Dos error, right? I've posted before about the problems I've had booting to win98SE, after I used Easeus*** to shrink the win98 partition, and I've made progress**, and I can now boot to Win98 DOS. But I get a DOS error if I try to do much when I'm there. If I try to continue on to the Windows of win98, it loads a lot of the things it is supposed to load, but eventually I get Sector not found reading drive C: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? If I use the Win98 boot menu and only load DOS, I get a similar sector error when I try to Edit many but not all normally editable files in the win98 partition. Like .txt, .bat, and .ini files. I can provide more details if necessary, the exact text of the error message Edit gives, the files that I can edit versus the ones I can't, the log of my boot attempt, the error messages when trying to do a step-by-step start of win98, whatever you want, but maybe this is enough. Any suggestions what is wrong? Help is much appreciated. **Background. I have multi-boot with win98 in partition C: and winXP in partition D:. Everything was fine afaik until I used Easeus partition software to shrink the win98 partition. At that point, I could get to the multi-boot menu but couldn't reach win98 at all. People on the XP newsgroup showed me how to SYS C:, then use DOS Debug to copy the C: boot sector to bootsect.dos, then to use the XP Recovery Console FIXBOOT C: to restore the C: bootsector back to what it was, that is, so it points somehow to the boot.ini, the multi-boot menu. After that, I could boot to winXP or to the DOS of Win98. *** I'm 99% sure that Easeus Partition Master got me into this mess. I also found someone else who said it caused no-start with win98. It runs under 2000, XP and newer, but it didnt' say it couldn't handle a winw98 partition while doing so. I"m sure it will do fine, running out ot XP, with FAT32 etc. when the partition is empty, but it seems that the boot sector varies with the OS, according to Partition Manager 8, and they wrote that when there was no reason to exaggerate. That is, I don't think there was much competition that didn't also fully support win98. Did you make a backup before changing your partition size? Yes. Dang, I also should have said that all those files I can't read when the C: partition (win98) is my system partition, I can still read just fine when I've booted to XP. That's why I'm thinking there's something fairly simple (other than restoring the data) that I could do to the c: (win98) partition that would make it good again. I should have said that before any of you answered, esp. Philo, but I didn't remember even when I read his post. Dang. If not, you need to stop making changes to it and get another HD and data recovery software to salvage what you can to another HD. Do not boot to the XP partition as the more you do that, then the less likely you will be able to recover anything. If you do have a backup, then I would use the HD mfr's diagnostics disk to requalify the HD before restoring it. Well, the WD DLG software says it's healthy, that it PASSes all the SMART tests. |
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Can't boot win98! Sectors not found Dos error, right?
mm wrote:
Can't boot win98! Sectors not found Dos error, right? I've posted before about the problems I've had booting to win98SE, after I used Easeus*** to shrink the win98 partition, and I've made progress**, and I can now boot to Win98 DOS. But I get a DOS error if I try to do much when I'm there. If I try to continue on to the Windows of win98, it loads a lot of the things it is supposed to load, but eventually I get Sector not found reading drive C: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? If I use the Win98 boot menu and only load DOS, I get a similar sector error when I try to Edit many but not all normally editable files in the win98 partition. Like .txt, .bat, and .ini files. I can provide more details if necessary, the exact text of the error message Edit gives, the files that I can edit versus the ones I can't, the log of my boot attempt, the error messages when trying to do a step-by-step start of win98, whatever you want, but maybe this is enough. Any suggestions what is wrong? Help is much appreciated. **Background. I have multi-boot with win98 in partition C: and winXP in partition D:. Everything was fine afaik until I used Easeus partition software to shrink the win98 partition. At that point, I could get to the multi-boot menu but couldn't reach win98 at all. People on the XP newsgroup showed me how to SYS C:, then use DOS Debug to copy the C: boot sector to bootsect.dos, then to use the XP Recovery Console FIXBOOT C: to restore the C: bootsector back to what it was, that is, so it points somehow to the boot.ini, the multi-boot menu. After that, I could boot to winXP or to the DOS of Win98. So what did you do after that to screw stuff up? If nothing, perhaps the hard disk is failing. Have you tried chkdsk? -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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AW: Can't boot win98! Sectors not found Dos error, right?
Dang, I also should have said that all those files I can't read when
the C: partition (win98) is my system partition, I can still read just fine when I've booted to XP. That's why I'm thinking there's something fairly simple (other than restoring the data) that I could do to the c: (win98) partition that would make it good again. Is your partition FAT16 or FAT32? What's the size of your partition? (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/118335) What's the type of your partition (primary or extended)? How many partitons of which type are in your system? (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/69912) It _is_ a FAT partition, not NTFS? -- Best Regards, * Klaus Meinhard * www.4dos.info |
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