Lots of good answers.
The disk check in Win Explorer (no options) quit with "Windows was unable to 
complete the disk check".
The CHKDSK from the command line was run in read only mode and revealed a 
few errors before it advised that it could go no further in Read-only mode. 
As soon as I get some real work done I will unleash it and hope for the 
best. I expect it would be best to do that from a fresh start reboot to 
command line.

I was not aware of the command line commands digest, I too was convinced it 
was all but gone. I will spend some time there.

As far being too stupid to use windows goes, I am in good company. It must 
be lonely on the other side!

Thanks to all. I will report back with results after I have something 
worthwhile.

John Ferrell    W8CCW
"My Competition is not my enemy"
http://DixieNC.US

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Fries" <freeze@visi.com>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: [ot]:Ghost?


> At 04:01 PM 9/20/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>>Ghost has arrived.
>>The next hurtle is that in the preparation I decided to simply copy off to
>>another drive my extensive My Documents folder. I kept an offline copy of 
>>a
>>website that seems to have grown a series of folders which tend to crash
>>windows explorer. The folders can be renamed, they currently reside as a 
>>12
>>deep nest of "bad". Intuition is telling me that it would be a bad idea to
>>try to clone this drive with the error in place. Command line or safe mode
>>will not allow a delete either. Scan Disk and Chkdsk don't appear to exist
>>with XP.
>
> CHKDSK does exist, but not quite the way you think.
>
> Right-click on a drive letter, choose properties, and go to the TOOLS tab.
> Use the Check Now button, and check the "automatically fix errors" box.
>
> Remove the BALONEY from my email address.
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>
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