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In earlier mail, I was advised to run a disc analysys called 'ontrack data
advisor. I got af far as rebooting the system with the floppy created by
ontrack, but then get the message 'bad or missing command interpreter.please
enter a valid filename'.Can anyone help?
 
patoost said:
In earlier mail, I was advised to run a disc analysys called 'ontrack
data advisor. I got af far as rebooting the system with the floppy
created by ontrack, but then get the message 'bad or missing command
interpreter.please enter a valid filename'.Can anyone help?
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We don't know what someone advised you in an email. If you mean this
newsgroup, this isn't email. Keeping your post in the previous thread
would have been better because we would know what the original problem
was and suggested fixes.

It sounds like your Ontrack Data Advisor floppy wasn't created properly
but there is really no way of knowing what's going on with your system
without more information from you.

Malke
 
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a deperate user


Malke said:
We don't know what someone advised you in an email. If you mean this
newsgroup, this isn't email. Keeping your post in the previous thread
would have been better because we would know what the original problem
was and suggested fixes.

It sounds like your Ontrack Data Advisor floppy wasn't created properly
but there is really no way of knowing what's going on with your system
without more information from you.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
To cut a long story short, my system keeps 'freezing' from time to time and has been dowing so for some months. Syslog shows no errors but 'user envirement and i was advised all this trouble could be caused by a hardware. So tried to run Ontrack data advisor to analyse the disk, got as far as creating the floppy, rebooted the system with it, and got stuck on the above mentionned message.
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patoost wrote:

Please fix your posting. You are posting below the signature delimiter
and real newsreaders strip out everything after the signature
delimiter. Here is what you said:

"To cut a long story short, my system keeps 'freezing' from time to time
and has been dowing so for some months. Syslog shows no errors but
'user envirement and i was advised all this trouble could be caused by
a hardware. So tried to run Ontrack data advisor to analyse the disk,
got as far as creating the floppy, rebooted the system with it, and got
stuck on the above mentionned message."

Random lockups are normally caused by failing hardware. The Ontrack Data
Advisor is the wrong diagnostic tool to use anyway. Here are general
hardware troubleshooting steps:

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Troubleshooting

Testing hardware failures often involves swapping out suspected parts
with known-good parts. If you can't do the testing yourself and/or are
uncomfortable opening your computer, take the machine to a professional
computer repair shop (not your local equivalent of BigStoreUSA).

Malke
 
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