| There are a few other things with CHKDSK you can do without re-formatting.
You will need your Win XP install disk though. Boot from install disk and choose recovery console. First it will ask what partition (IE 1 - C Drive) enter "1" and then it will ask for administrator PW. (if there is no administrator pw just leave blank and hit enter)
From the prompt type "CHKDSK /R" the switch /r tells it to check HD for corruption and repair any files. This can take a while to run and will look like the programs starts over after it repairs any files or HD problems.
Other Commands that can be ran from the prompt are FIXBOOT which can repair some booting into windows problems or Blue Screens before reaching windows log in.
Other commands I DO NOT recommend are FIXMBR which will replace your master boot record. However should this command fail, it can render your HD useless and force a re-format on you or render your HD to not be recognized at all in cmos. |