Francisco Tapia
fhtapia at gmail.com
Fri Jan 28 00:33:12 CST 2005
well i got home and tried one more time to chk disk, this time via the GUI app in computer management... it went and did a full hdd scan including a surface scan that fixed the pc good and am now back on my way to applying SP2 On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:33:44 -0800, Francisco Tapia <fhtapia at gmail.com> wrote: > that's very good thanks for the info... I don't want to upgrade the pc > to SP2 if it has bad blocks on it that it has not identified... :) > > > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:49:21 -0800, MartyConnelly <martyconnelly at shaw.ca> wrote: > > I usually run chkdsk from safe mode and > > I run chkdsk first > > then chkdsk /F > > > > Just maybe you have some corrupt system files, so restore from your XP cd > > You could try this "scannow" > > > > Every thing you wanted to know about but were afraid to ask about scannow > > Read this article first to explain any surprises and how windows xp dll > > updates are saved and stored. > > > > http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html > > > > Put WinXp CD in drive so it will be available, then > > > > Click Start > > click Run > > type > > > > sfc /scannow > > > > hit enter > > > > Still have problems > > One place to check is the XP forums at > > http://www.windowsbbs.com > > > > Francisco Tapia wrote: > > > > >I have a Windows XP machine in my hands right now, I did a chkdsk c: > > >/F and while it did go out and scan everthing, when I went to attempt > > >a SP2 update some files could not be backedup when I clicked on the > > >files to manually back them up I received the CRC error message for > > >these files.... I thought ChkDsk is supposed to fix these things... am > > >I wrong? > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Marty Connelly > > Victoria, B.C. > > Canada > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > -- > -Francisco > http://pcthis.blogspot.com | PC news with out the jargon! > -- -Francisco http://pcthis.blogspot.com | PC news with out the jargon!