Is there anyway to repair an error in the FAT directory so that the check disk utility will perform properly?
When the system starts, it hangs during the check disk procedure. Mark Minasi: Ouch. If you can’t get the OS running, that kind of limits what you can do. Here’s what I did to fix that on a system: I just pulled the drive out of the computer and installed it on another computer as its second hard disk. It didn’t need that drive to boot, so I could fix the FAT. Strong recommendation, though — don’t use FAT. NTFS is great. One more thought: go to Adstech.com and get a firewire enclosure. You can then install the drive in the enclosure and actually hot-plug it into another computer (with a firewire port) and then do work on it. I hope this helps. SearchWin2000.com: If you are going to bring up a new Windows Web server, what version would you use of Windows? Mark Minasi: The latest available as we speak — Windows 2000 Server. Once locked down and patched it is a very stable and secure Web server IMHO. SearchWin2000.com: Is there a software program to turn off WinXP hardware registration
