Corrupt C drive

[nvening]

Hi,

I booted up my laptop yesterday and got the mesage that my C drive was corrupt and i should run chkdsk - i think this must have been caused by trying to resize the partition using gParted (on ubuntu)

If i look at the drive there are no files, just what i think is an error log.

It is the only partition on the laptop so the files must be ok because im using it to type this message on windows!!

I ran chkdsk on the system, from cmd while booted and it found errors but said it could not continue in read only mode.

So i set it to run at statup but it says the drive cannot be acessed??

Here is the error log i was talking about - any help would be much apreciated!!!

oh and im using xp mce 2005 sp2

Text file log download (too long for forum)

thanks

[nvening]

Anyone?? This is driving me crazy - everytime i do anything i get warning messages about missing files which wont go away??

Thanks

[redlight]

What about booting with an XP disk and choosing the recovery console option and run chkdsk /r /f

[alcor]

Am i right in thinking that XP is working, just with error messages?

If so first thing to do is back up everything important while you still can, incase something gets worse.

Then recovery but probably better would be a reinstall of the OS. You could even set up the partitions then, which shouldnt upset anything.

[nvening]

Everything is now backed up. I do not have the correct xp disk with me atm and wont do for a while.

However i tried an xp home disk to repair it - i used the method where it normally detects the existing os and asks if you want to fix it - however it did not detect it - this may however be because it is an upgrade disk but it says it cannot detect another os to allow me to install anyway, so there must be something wrong

So i tried using the recovery console on the disk and runing chkdsk - it takes a while to run and then says errors found, but makes no attempt to repair them. Is there another command i need to enter to get it to fix the problems??

Thanks.

[nvening]

Also worth noting is that i can now see all the files on the c drive whereas i could not before - however i still get the error messages of not being able to find files - even though they exist!!

[Steve]

I think recovery console chkdsk needs the /p parameter. run chkdsk /?