ok trying to intall the newest version of DirectX but it
keeps telling my that my TimeStamp file is corrupted or
unreadable and that I should run this utility
Chkdsk...witch does nothing but run and close and change
nothing. what is TimeStamp? what does it do? I can't move
it or delete it because it gives me the 'file is corrupt
or unreadable' error. please help!

Jake

"Jake" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> ok trying to intall the newest version of DirectX but it
> keeps telling my that my TimeStamp file is corrupted or
> unreadable and that I should run this utility
> Chkdsk...witch does nothing but run and close and change
> nothing. what is TimeStamp? what does it do? I can't move
> it or delete it because it gives me the 'file is corrupt
> or unreadable' error. please help!

Are you just typing in chkdsk in the Run box?

Go to the drive's properties in My Computer and run it from there "Check
Now" under the tools tab.

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>Are you just typing in chkdsk in the Run box?
>
>Go to the drive's properties in My Computer and run it
from there "Check
>Now" under the tools tab.
>
>--
>Paul Smith

at a remote site now but whats the difference if u just
do in from run as to if u do it from check now under the
tools tab?

Jake

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> at a remote site now but whats the difference if u just
> do in from run as to if u do it from check now under the
> tools tab?

You'll want to run it with "auto fix file system errors" I think that does
it's full check, I'm not sure of the switch to run it as through cmd.

Also just running 'chkdsk' on cmd will run it in read-only mode.

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Yeovil, UK.
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