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windows ME will not boot
Hi A family member of mines has Windows Me they turned
it off one night and now it will not come back on it powers up and runs a bios check then it displays a message "Verifying DMI Pool Data" then on a black screen it displays "Disk I\O error" "Replace the disk and then press and key" then if I hit enter I get "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter" I've make a ME boot disk and I have cold booted with that and it went through lots of things then displayed on a black screen "A:\" and if I hit enter I get the A:\ again what should I do keep in mined they didn't have an updated version of mcafee virus on this PC Reply: Sounds like your Hard Drive is failing, see:- "Error Message "Verifying DMI Pool Data" Occurs and the Computer Is Unavailable" http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx? scid=kb;en-us;287553 Try running scandisk in Real Mode DOS, booting from your Win Me Startup (floppy) Disk. Select option 4) Minimal and at the A:\ prompt, type: scandisk c: Then press return. (Note the space between the k and the c and note the colon : after the c) If it will let you, progress with the tests (depends how bad the disk is). If errors are reported and scandisk offers to repair, decline - and also decline a surface scan. Treat the disk with caution and hope that you will able to read and copy your important files at a later time. Only attempt any further testing if/when you can afford to lose any data. (Urgent preparation for 'sods' Law is strongly recommended) Good luck Mart Reply: I've don't that scandisk and this is what I got please inform Me on what this means Data error while reading the SAT Disk error prevents scandisk from fixing this drive There are still errors on this drive view log or exit and I tried to view log and got this Scandisk didn't perform any test File system surface scan File allocation no problems There are still errors on drive c Please advise on what to do know Thanx Martin |
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