Hi If you click on start - then click on run and type in CHKDSK and press return it will run Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mal Parr" <parrsbay@iinet.net.au> To: <gen-comp-tips@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:03 PM Subject: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] RE CHKDSK QUERY > Hello Paul, > Re my query below, I did reply to you, but on searching my 'sent' box I > can't see it listed at all, so can only assume that my reply was lost in > space somewhere. > To answer your question, I'm running Windows XP > > And in answer to your second question - yes, for my pains, I'm still > Editor of Western Ancestor - in my 17th year. > I will appreciate any help you can give me re this problem, but I am now > seriously considering a new computer, and a new system - an Imac. > Regards, > Malcolm Parr. > >>------------------------------ >> >>Message: 2 >>Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:47:17 EDT >>From: PaulGask@aol.com >>Subject: Re: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] CHKDSK PROBLEM >>To: GEN-COMP-TIPS@rootsweb.com >>Message-ID: <c2a.234c48e8.35363615@aol.com> >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >> >> >>In a message dated 15/04/2008 15:51:59 GMT Standard Time, >>parrsbay@iinet.net.au writes: >> >>I keep getting a pop-up message on my screen that says that a file is >>faulty >>or corrupted, and tells me to run something called CHKDSK. I assume this >>is >>short for 'check disk' and have found this mentioned in the Microsoft >>help >>page, but the instructions are a bit daunting for this 70-plus person, >>and I >>can't see how to run chkdsk. >>Any advice will be very much appreciated. >> >>Mal in W. Australia >> >> >> >> >>Hello Mal >> >>It's a long time since I heard from you - are you still editing your >>society's journal ? >> >>Anyway, to your problem. What operating system are you using - Windows XP >>and what version, Windows 98 or whatever ? We need that information to >>give you >>accurate directions. >> >>Best wishes. >> >>Paul Gaskell >>Publicity Officer >>Oxfordshire Family History Society >>Website : _www.ofhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk) >> >> >> >> >> >> >>------------------------------ >> >>To contact the GEN-COMP-TIPS list administrator, send an email to >>GEN-COMP-TIPS-admin@rootsweb.com. >> >>To post a message to the GEN-COMP-TIPS mailing list, send an email to >>GEN-COMP-TIPS@rootsweb.com. >> >>__________________________________________________________ >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>GEN-COMP-TIPS-request@rootsweb.com >>with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body >>of the >>email with no additional text. >> >> >>End of GEN-COMP-TIPS Digest, Vol 3, Issue 91 >>******************************************** >> >> >> > -------------------------------------- > Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the List Admin at > gen-comp-tips-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GEN-COMP-TIPS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.3/1390 - Release Date: > 21/04/2008 16:23 > >