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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Prophet on August 16, 2005, 10:26:44 am
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Anyone know where I might download scandisk or something similar?
I got a new hard drive recently. But for some reason I cant get my copy of Win2kprof to work on it. It installs fine, but throws a blue error screen at me during startup.
Well I slaved to new hard drive under my old (over 5 yers old actually) hard drive,and it seems to work fine. But then I discovered that Win2k doesnt really have a decent scandisk program that I could use to check the new hard drive for physical damage. And since my old drive is old and slooow this arragement doesnt really help much.
If the drive is damaged then there is nothing magical about it, I'll get a new one. But if the drive turns out to be intact, then something screwy is going on...
So does any one know where I might get some kind of scandisk program? I tried google but didnt find anything useful...
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you have tried working under safe mode first, right?
If you have a newer computer, say within the past 2-3 years, the drivers, are not with disk that you need to properly run it, causing the blue screen. I had that exact same problem, but rather than a new hard disk it was a entirely new computer.
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Safe mode freezes when the stupid questions come. The ones you get the first time Windöws starts up (Name, company, timezone etc...).
I'm not sure what you are saying there...? But I did get a new motherboard last winter, among other things...
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Ok, I'll try to clear things up. The Windows 2000 Op system is actually a fairly old operating system. (even though i still use it for its great stability) The install disk for widows 2000 is still running the driver set from when it was released and does not contain newer driver for the motherboards, processors, videocards, etc, released in about the last 3 years or so. So what you'll have to do is, keep trying to go into safe mode, and before you do anything else, try to download the newest updates and drivers you can.
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Now I get it, yes yes didn't think about that... No.
See I have installed 2000 to my old HD before. On this system cofiguration. Worked fine, so its not that. Hard drives dont need drivers now do they?
The problem emerged with the new HD. The solution must be there...
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if your installing a new system from scratch on a new disk, you have to download all the drivers again. the easier way would be to leave the old harddrive with Win 2000 on it and make the new drive a new partition of the system. dont have to download any updates for it then.
BTW scan disk comes with windows 2000.
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Thats how I have it now. But as I said before, since the operating system is on a over 5 years old drive it tends to work little sluggishly... Slow, noisy... No fun.
Then where is the scandisk in Win2k? And by what name? I cant find it. I did find something that I supposed check something from the drive, and it said it was healthy. But I am not sure if it checked the drive very thoroughly. I really should get the operating system to a new drive, and I really need to know if this new drive is ok. If its functional, then I really don't know what might be the problem. And anyone I've talked to cant explain it either...
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what you do is, select the drive in my computer. Right-click the drive and select properties. Next click on the tab tools and it should be one of the option listed there.
I still think its drivers though.
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Descenter, Scandisk doesn't come with Windows 2000. Instead you can use chkdsk which does exactly the same thing (but isn't very user friendly, it's a terminal program). Go into a command prompt and type chkdsk /f C: (or whatever volume you want to check). It will almost certainly prompt you to restart if you've specified the drive on which the OS resides. If you want to do a physical drive check, substitute /f for /r and it'll do the sector scan.
There's also a little GUI widget you can access if you right click on a drive icon, go to Properties and click the Tools tab, and hit Check Now, but it doesn't tell you what's wrong as it scans the disk.
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The "Error-checker"? Yeah, tried that... That didn't find anything. Didn't give any feedback at all.
So if the disk is fine, then what's wrong?
And I have trouble beliving that driver theory. Win2kprof should be able to handle 80G drive...
I could propably aquire XP... But the ugly looking candy interface :ick:
But I might not have any choice.
EDIT: Thanks SadisticSid. I'll try that...
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its not the drivers for the Drive im thinking about anyway. its the ones that handle the motherboard and system componets.
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Yeeesss... But as I said before. I have re-installed that very same Win2k to the old drive, and it worked fine. Now that I am trying to apply the same procedure with the new drive, and it worked not.
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well then i am out of ideas. sorry i cant help.