SP2?

[Mysterious folders]

Long story. I installed, then UNinstalled SP2 and
reformated my computer and reinstalled XPPro. Whenever I
reboot, chkdsk runs and says "recovering orphaned file
$I30...". One of the partitions on my HDD is almost
completely full with weird directories that have names
like "1b90f6d9557dd40d11ce29f0, and
8a4b89d59def05145d1a99" I've tried to delete the
directories but Win says the files are protected. I tried
to change them from "read-only" but it didn't work. Any
ideas?

Thanks ahead!!

ps I've tried to reinstall SP2, BUT it is NOT showing up
on the MS Win Update site for me...grrrrr

 

[Guest]

Delete all partitions, make a new partition for installing winxp and then do
a quick format, then install winxp,, odd files all gone from disk drive