[Ham-Computers] to XP or not-XP: that is the question

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Won't the 'chkdsk /f' need to be done from the command line prompt?


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From: "john" <johngadd at comcast.net>
To: "Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications, or 
experimenting" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] to XP or not-XP: that is the question


> Try booting the machine while holding down the F8 key (Safe Mode) defrag 
> and "Index" the drive THEN reboot with the CHKDSK/F command Win 7 home is 
> available on E Bay and Craigslist.org You will need to FORMAT the hard 
> drive to get a clean install
>
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> From: "Doug Hensley" <w5jv at hotmail.com>
> To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 10:20:57 AM
> Subject: [Ham-Computers] to XP or not-XP: that is the question
>
> Speaking of Windows, I have two questions:
> (1) Does anyone have a source for a least expensive home edition of 
> Windows 7?
> (2) I thought my XP unit had hung while moving a file. I had used 
> Defragmentation toAnalyze a disk (check its fragmentation) and seeing one 
> file was spread, I did a cut andpaste of it to move it from C: drive 
> another drive called D:. 30 minutes later I glanced at the screen and saw 
> it was still "copying". Well, I thought this was a hung system soI hit the 
> reset button.
> Since then the machine won't boot up. I made the standard recovery CD and 
> ran these:
> chkdsk /rchkdsk /p /r
> And they took a long time but did not report back anything other than they 
> had found aproblem. Gave up, went to sleep.
> This AM I turned the box on and a blue CHKDSK screen appeared announcing 
> it was looking at a problem on drive D:. After it finished, it said it 
> found a corrected a problemdrive index. Then it sat there. So I hit reset 
> again. It is now back to the state of notbooting up. The C: drive is 7 
> years old and has had modest use, maybe 20% of those daysit got turned on 
> at most. My thought is to pull it, put a new hard drive in and biting 
> thebullet, go to Windows 7. The caveats are: some of my software such as 
> Office 2000 andthe like will no longer be useable (as told to me by a W7 
> compatibility check) and I willhave to spend another week of my last days 
> trying to get the machine to behave normally.
> If anyone has "been there, done that" and can suggest or offer 
> suggestions, please getin touch.
> 73, Doug W5JV/NNN0BXX
>
>
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