February 29th, 2004, 02:55 PM
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The easiest way to check the HDD would be to take it out and put slave it into another computer.
| Well, the only other computer I can do that in does not use the same connecting cables... my computer is about a month old and so it is more high tech than my old one.
I ran chkdsk /f from the emergency console, and that still didn't fix my problem, still can't delete the file.
I got windows set up to run, but it doesn't have the option to format the drive and perform a fresh installation...
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These other posts should resolve your hdd prob. In the future if you can't delete a program go to task manager > processes and see if it is running, if it is hilight it and click end process, you should be able to delete it at that point
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I went through and stopped just about every process I could, and still no go.
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try a winme or win98 emergergency boot disk. if it can't delete the file, then fdisk /mbr the drive. restart, run fdisk again to check the partition, you may have to delete it and make a new primary dos partition. restart again and format.
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I still have yet to try this, I'll try it right now |
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