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Title: Cannot boot up"Fat file missing" ..help
Post by: Ripsnort on August 05, 2001, 06:04:00 PM

Didn't do nothing unusual, just logged on and "Fat file missing"  Goes to C prompt.  Anyone have a clue?  HD fried?

Attempting to boot "safe mode" I get "Windows detected a protection error in VKD file" it auto shuts off after that.

[ 08-05-2001: Message edited by: Ripsnort ]

Title: Cannot boot up"Fat file missing" ..help
Post by: bloom25 on August 05, 2001, 07:05:00 PM

That's not good at all Ripsnort.  :(  Chances are your FAT (file allocation table) have been corrupted and all data on your drive as well.  You very well may have a bad drive on your hands also.

Title: Cannot boot up"Fat file missing" ..help
Post by: Ripsnort on August 05, 2001, 08:18:00 PM

Damn!  Vacation this week, looks like I'll be doing my best impression of "I know what you did last summer" movie...

Title: Cannot boot up"Fat file missing" ..help
Post by: indian on August 05, 2001, 09:13:00 PM

Rip is that VKD or VXD second one is the video as in (virtual) has soething to do with Direct X I think.  :cool:

Title: Cannot boot up"Fat file missing" ..help
Post by: Tac on August 05, 2001, 09:28:00 PM

in c prompt try :

scanreg /restore (and choose earliest date)

or

scanreg /fix

Then do a

fdisk /mbr

and restart.

If that doesnt fix it... you got a problem   :p

Title: Cannot boot up"Fat file missing" ..help
Post by: Ripsnort on August 06, 2001, 07:52:00 AM

Indian - VKD

Tac, I'll try that tonight, thks.

Title: Cannot boot up"Fat file missing" ..help
Post by: AKDejaVu on August 06, 2001, 10:55:00 AM

when's Michael Angello's b-day?

AKDejaVu