molisa said:
I've been having problems w/system performance being extremely slow.
Diskeeper Lite came with my computer and now that won't run. I tried
to reinstall with the CD that came with it, but that doesn't help.
Scan disk won't run after a shut-down. I ran chkdsk which was
suggested on an error message, but that is read only and says I have
lots of errors. How do I get it to use the fix parameter, and will
this even help??
Click My Computer from the Start Menu, right click on your hard drive that
has the errors, click Properties, click Tools, click "Check Now" under error
checking, click the options to automatically fix files and scan for bad
sectors, and click OK. You will probably be told that your hard drive is
locked and that it can perform these functions on the next reboot. Click OK,
then reboot. Chkdsk will run as part of the bootup. It may take awhile,
depending on the size of your hard drive (expect an hour or more if you have
a huge hard drive).
When the process completes and your computer finishes booting up, repeat
this process, except this time don't press the automatically fix and scan for
bad sectors options. If the errors are gone, you're done. If they are not
gone (you'll know because either the program will report remaining errors or
will say it is unable to continue), repeat the above process again. If the
errors still don't go away, the problem may be either a hard drive going bad
(nothing you can do about it except to repair or replace the HD itself) or a
corrupt file system necessitating a reformat and clean install of XP.
Ken
