Podnutz Daily #6 - FIXBOOT, Outlook, and Point-of-Sale systems
- FIXBOOT and CHKDSK on the Windows XP/2000 CD to fix boot up problems
- How to transfer Outlook file to new installation
- IDE/SATA to USB cable is a must have for computer techs
- How to buy/sell a point-of-sale system
posted by Steve Cherubino @ 2:32 AM
1 Comments:
Steve,
You packed a lot of information into this late-night podcast. I noticed that you like to run fixboot before running chkdsk /r, I assume because chkdsk can take forever to run. I do chkdsk first, myself, because I once saw fixboot completely monkey-up the partition table on a computer I was working on. Not only would the PC still not boot, but all of the data was inaccessible. Luckily, I had already backed up the data to an external hard drive. I ended up reinstalling Windows. Now, I run chkdsk first, because I have never seen it destroy data or the partition table, although chkdsk can take a long time. After that bad incident happened, I did a google search on fixboot and discovered that many other people had had the same problem, where fixboot had made strange things happen to the data on the hard drive.
What brand of USB to SATA/IDE cable do you use?
Instead of taking out the hard drive and connecting it to another computer to recover data from a laptop, I like to boot to a UBCD4Win CD, and then transfer the data to an external drive using the broken computer's USB port. Then again, UBCD4Win takes a while to boot and load all of the drivers. Maybe your method is faster; I don't know. What do you think?
Tom Johnson
Black Cat Computers
Brighton, IL
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