jj_rice

When I run CHKDSK /F at bootup, it doesn't find any errors. It goes through its paces without any difficulty. I must have done this at least a half a dozen times. Formatting, just a lovely task. Thanks

Yes, I ran CHKDSK /F many times at bootup. Each time there were no indications anything was found wrong.

Recent mystery resets, I started investigating the problem, hardware or software. In downloading Seagate harddisk tools, it failed the File Structure Test, hardware was fine. Suggested to run CHKDSK which also said I had a problem and run CHKDSK /F. System had to schedule this at startup. When it runs it doesn't fix or identify a problem. Did this exercise several times including defrag. Also tried to verify XP installed correctly with SFC /SCANNOW. Below is a copy of CHKDSK; Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] © Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\John Rice>chkdsk The type of the file system is NTFS. WARNING! F parameter not specified. Running CHKDSK in read-only mode. CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)... File verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)... Index verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)... Security descriptor verification completed. Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap. Windows found problems with the file system. Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these. 156280288 KB total disk space. 13502564 KB in 58882 files. 20444 KB in 4391 indexes. 0 KB in bad sectors. 180124 KB in use by the system. 65536 KB occupied by the log file. 142577156 KB available on disk. 4096 bytes in each allocation unit. 39070072 total allocation units on disk. 35644289 allocation units available on disk. Thanks