>Help!
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>One of my machines refuses to boot up from C:. When boothed from an emergency diskette and scandisk is run it says that it found an error reading the FAT tables. This is a Win ME machine.
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>Can anyone one give any ideas?
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>Thanks a lot.
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>Alex
It is possible that a critical section of the hard disk is physically damaged, and can't be recovered.
I do hope you have a recent backup. If you don't, see what you can recover, booting from another machine (connecting your damaged disk as a secondary disk), and see if you can format it.
Perhaps you should leave this as a last ressort - possibly other members of the UT can come up with a safer solution.
Hilmar.
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