chkdsk won't complete its operation

Chuck;

I agree with jbogren on this one, but I'll say it a little
differently: It sounds like you desperately need to
*backup* your hard drive, then reformat and rebuild it.

If you try to defrag a hard drive with cross linked files
and other problems you could create a lot of serious
problems for yourself.

There is also the possiblilty that you're getting
some "grown defects" and other hard disk physical
problems, but impossible to tell until you fix the logical
structure.

ScottyDM

>-----Original Message-----
>While trying to run the chkdsk /f operation upon system
>startup (NTFS), I get the message "an unspecified error
>occured" while the utility is attempting to correct a
>crosslinked file 8. The utility then closes unfinished,
>and W2K loads. This happens each time I try to run
chkdsk.
>
>I know I have disk problems, and desperately need to
>defrag the HD. Unfortunately, this can't happen if
chkdsk
>won't do its job to completion as the defrag utilities
(MS
>and Norton) won't run if there are HD problems detected.
>
>How can I get things to work properly, short of
>reformatting my HD, reinstalling my apps and restoring my
>data files... all of which are an unacceptable solution
>for a problem that should (theoretically) be easy to
solve?
>
>Any assistance would be appreciated.
>
>Chuck Newman
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