Recent content by clogman

Thanks for the help, people. One of the things I tried was launching the recovery console and pulling up the C:\ prompt. typing DIR get me the response "an error occurred during directory enumeration" and I can't use the command to change directory. The thing that really bugs me is, when I...

Sorry. Should have been clearer. Any chkdsk option fails when I boot from the XP install disk. However, when the disk is visible via USB, I can run chkdsk from a command window, and it works fine. It also reports no errors. It seems that Windows can't find something it needs to launch the...

Sorry to ask for help, but I've tried lots of Googling and am getting nowhere. The faults I'll describe are not due to hardware or malware of any kind. They are entirely self-inflicted wounds. My PC is running XP, SP3. I have two HDD, both with multiple partitions. The C:\ SYSTEM disk is...