Copy all your stuff down, and when you finish, think it again if everything
has backed up, then boot up the system with an emergency disk, or recovery
console, or using another WinXP and check your driver like that.
Alternatively just format the drive... But make sure there is no hardware
error on the disk.

Tamas


On 21/09/06, John Ferrell <johnferrell@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > Matthew Fries       Minneapolis, MN    USA
> > freeze@baloneyvisi.com
> >
> > "Quit eating all my *STUFF*!" - The Tick
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