Hi All,
This is my first post and I am hoping someone can help me.
My friend gave me her Acer Aspire 5380 Laptop with Vista Home Premium pre loaded. (I thought it just needed a virus
scan and fix). The system is not booting to windows so I am
unable to use any Windows/desktop solutions.
I have access to repair that gives the option to fix problems in start up which I did. It found one root problem which it said it
was a corrupted file that it fixed but didn't. None of the other options are viable except for the MSDos prompt.
I went to dos prompt and did CHKDSK /F which said that it had fixed the problem but on restart it had not and now can't get the option again. It says that the volume is being used by another program and if I press Y it will reallocate on reboot - but it doesn't. This also applies to CHKDSK /X. So tried CHKDSK /V and found that 'THE VOLUME BITMAP IS INCORRECT'
I then tried sfc /SCANNOW and sfc /SCANFILE=CHKDSK but it just tells me that there is a fix pending and if I reboot it will complete the repair - but restart doesn't change anything.
I don't have drivers but am taking it into work on Tuesday to
borrow theirs but in the meantime do any of you have anything
I can try that will get this pending repair to complete or find what file has the volume allocated to it and how to unallocate and maybe how to correct the VOLUME BITMAP. Oh hell, who am I kidding - anybody got anything??
Bear in mind I learn fast on computers but have minimal experience in dos.
Many thanks in anticipation of your help.
Mxx
This is my first post and I am hoping someone can help me.
My friend gave me her Acer Aspire 5380 Laptop with Vista Home Premium pre loaded. (I thought it just needed a virus
scan and fix). The system is not booting to windows so I am
unable to use any Windows/desktop solutions.
I have access to repair that gives the option to fix problems in start up which I did. It found one root problem which it said it
was a corrupted file that it fixed but didn't. None of the other options are viable except for the MSDos prompt.
I went to dos prompt and did CHKDSK /F which said that it had fixed the problem but on restart it had not and now can't get the option again. It says that the volume is being used by another program and if I press Y it will reallocate on reboot - but it doesn't. This also applies to CHKDSK /X. So tried CHKDSK /V and found that 'THE VOLUME BITMAP IS INCORRECT'
I then tried sfc /SCANNOW and sfc /SCANFILE=CHKDSK but it just tells me that there is a fix pending and if I reboot it will complete the repair - but restart doesn't change anything.
I don't have drivers but am taking it into work on Tuesday to
borrow theirs but in the meantime do any of you have anything
I can try that will get this pending repair to complete or find what file has the volume allocated to it and how to unallocate and maybe how to correct the VOLUME BITMAP. Oh hell, who am I kidding - anybody got anything??
Bear in mind I learn fast on computers but have minimal experience in dos.
Many thanks in anticipation of your help.
Mxx
