Look into BartPE, (Bart's Preinstalled Environment), bootable live windows CD/DVD http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ or XPPE, (Svenska's XpPe Boot CD ) http://www.xppe.com/ (BartPE is a lot simpler for a beginner.) Make a boot disk from one of the above, with Chkdsk enabled in "setup". You will need the files from your Windows XP(+) Installation CD-Rom. (It must be slip streamed with Service Pack 1 or higher) Run chkdsk from the boot CD. Sometimes that will find things, (and fix them), that Windows just can't find when left running "on its own". Rick Glazier ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Shkabara" <[log in to unmask]> > They recommend running CHKDSK to fix the problem. However, CHKDSK finds no error > - hence my dilemma! Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml