![]() I would test the whole HDD, but I wouldn't "zero-fill" a so-called "recovery partition", if you have one. But, I would strongly recommend both testing/repairing and "zero-filling" your Windows partition before reinstalling. ![]() If your HDD is working correctly, and you "quick format" it, you don't need to "zero-fill". IF your HDD is working correctly (which you don't know according to the info you provided), you could "quick format" and reinstall (once again, if you have all the correct/original CDs and DVDs for your laptop and OS). so, in case I cannot diagnose my HDD, can I zero write it? I've read that new-HHDs just overwrite the damaged info and they can work. It just means that you haven't provided ANY relevant information for anyone to help you, besides the correct steps to build your UFD that I already posted. Together with people that failed, there are many others that were successful, including UFD bigger than 256MB (which you have mentioned as somehow "problematic" with FreeDOS, with no background, nor link, no basis).Īll this doesn't mean that you are definitely wrong, nor correct. _if you tried building UBCD with "ubcd2usb" using another USB port (not paired with the previous USB port) _if you connected your UFD to a USB post DIRECTLY connected to your motherboard ( PART of the USB ports at the back of a desktop) _if you really tried correctly using "ubcd2usb" as I described _how you know that your UFD is working fine Sorry, but what you say is not prove of anything. To answer the rest of your questions, you should provide specific info, or better yet, follow the correct tutorials.Ĥ_clear your UFD (and have it formatted as FAT32) ( beware this deletes you data from your UFD, so have a backup if you need it) ĥ_run ubcd2usb (which optionally formats your UFD and copies and installs UBCD to your UFD.ĭarklink986 wrote:Well, my usb is working fine, is just that FreeDOS app problem which I've read before, it had happened to a lot of people. The "same" is valid for any DOS hardware (mouse for example). For example, if no DOS CD-ROM driver is loaded, you would have more free RAM (essential for some DOS-based programs) but no access to CD media from DOS. This options let you load different DOS RAM managers, and different DOS drivers/controllers. THANK YOU, hopefull you can answer my 5 answers specially the freedos menu!!! (would it be bad, if I just wipe-clean-zero my hard drive then install win7 again?) But it did not boot, it would just boot to the next bootable device, why is that? could it be the FJDT.EXE file? or should I do it directly through the ISO? I tried to burn it to a CD (so I would not have problems with the dos apps), I copied all the files to a new data cd (on D2GO) plus FJDT.exe just in case. It had just worked on the UMBPCI semi defensive on Grub4DOS, but then Toshiba diagnostic tool won't find my hard drive (any other app would find it without a problem - even seagate tools, which told me that it cannot repair it because is not a seagate tools), is it because of the UMBPCI option?Īnother thing, always when is loading freeDOS, it cannot load the cd drive: it would say: QCDROM CDEXATA1 not loaded, abort. I could not load any FreeDOS app, it would only get me to "xxxxx.bat not found on the CD" and I had to reboot it again. I was able to use Knoppix Live CD and I did back up my info already (whew)! So I got this UBCD installed on another USB, and I tried to run the toshiba app, which it runs from FreeDOS (which now I know it has problems with USB bigger than 256 mb). It won't boot from my HDD nor from any recovery/installation/repair disk, it would just go to a black screen with a cursor on it. My laptop, a Gateway p705u FX, with a 6 months old Toshiba HDD and Win7 64 is not working.
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