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Scan Interrupted, Can No Longer Boot to Visible Logon Screen
lmitchell:
I've just run chkdsk on C (the boot sector). It's clean, with 0 kb in bad sectors and no problems with the file system. The results has the same last line as the othe scan "Failed to transfer...".
lmitchell:
From X:/Windows/System32
"Eventvwr is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file"
From D:/Windows/System32 get "Error" window:
"The Event Viewer console file X:/windows/system32/eventvwr.msc cannot be found. Re-run Microsoft Windows setup."
Of course, when I run dir for the D drive, eventvwr.exe, eventvwr.msc and EventViewer_EventDetails.xsl are all there.
lmitchell:
From what I've been reading 8kb in bad sectors can be portent of disaster or something that can be monitored. Pretty much everyone says that the second they see hint of deterioration they get a new hard drive and move evrything. A few state that that the fact that chkdsk mentions it means it's been flagged for nonuse and one can continue using the disk in the short term but is taking a risk.
If there's any chance function can be stored to my OS I have to put myself in the latter category.I'd like to confirm that this condition did or didn't exist before if you could point me to prior logs. I've hard restarted so many times in the past few days attempting to login and ahving no other way to shut down or log off when confronted with the black screen with mouse cursor that I have to wonder if that might be cause of some corruption.
I have five external hard disks if varying sizes, plugged into a 10-usb hub. One is a 1TB that I partitioned so that one partition is the size of the internal laptop hard drive, intending to do full image back ups onto it. Right now it has a few 100GB or data I was temporarily storing there. I can't move anything because the hub is not being seen in WinRe but can probably do so in Linux.
Next, even if I copy or image it may be a few days before I can get a new drive. My immediate issue is that I have work hanging and orders to fulfil from days ago. I can copy my data and will try to start pending hearing from you guys, but I have to get this operable and take my chances oending being able to get a new bootable (versus passive portable) drive up and running
lmitchell:
The end of the last msg got messed up.
The inability to log in resulted from the TWR crash. At this point the preexisting problem (the browser crashing, which was an irritant) is workable. I'm less concerned with that and would welcome simply being able to get to the point of logging in again. Then I can take care of the obligations and, ideallly with new hard drive in hand within a few days, work on migrating to th enew drive. I fully accept any risks inherent in doing so.
Right now I'm going to putz around with one of my Linux disks and hope copying the files out doesn't take too much time.
Boggin:
Do you have that USB hub plugged in all of the time - even now when it is failing to boot ?
If so, unplug it and see if the machine will boot up normally.
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