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Date: | Sat, 6 Nov 1999 17:55:45 PDT |
From: | raydav@intlaccess.com |
Reply-To: | scoug-help@scoug.com |
To: | scoug-help@scoug.com |
Subject: | SCOUG-Help: Help Desk Request |
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Ray Davison has the following problem:
I have a machine that at some point
started running CHECK DISK on the second
hard drive only. I checked CONFIG.SYS
and found:
DISKCACHE=6144,LW,128,AC:CDEFGHIJK.
Therefore the problem is not that CHECK
DISK is running on the second drive but
that it is not running on the first.
Also at the end of boot there is an
error box "CCHMAIN.EXE cannot continue".
The boot partition is E. Running CHECK
DISK from the command line against E:,
indicates there are errors. However the
/F switch is dissalowed because the
system is running on that drive.
It is my understanding that I should be
able to boot from floppies for maintance
purposes. I attempted to make boot
floppies using
"CREATE UTILITY DISKETTES", both with
and without "Use files from hard disk".
I also created a set using OS2BOOT.EXE
from Clear and Simple. That gives me
three sets of boot disks. They all
partialy boot and then then fail at
different points.
I turned off the power switch and that
forced CHECK DISK to run on drive E,
and it cleared the problems it was
reporting. That is not a very elegant
way to fix the drive. I still get the
CCHMAIN error.
The /F switch is accepted on the second
drive, but if I attempt to use it on any
partition on the first drive, I get a
"Locked or in use" error.
Any ideas?
TY
Ray
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