Laurie
The implications of your message is that you have a large corrupted file
or files and / or you have a limited amount of free disk space. You
potentially have a very serious problem so you should immediately back
up important data files before it is too late. When you have backed up
it would be helpful if you posted more information.
What is your computer make and model? What exactly do you have by way of
a Windows XP CD. Post the description given on the face of the CD. You
may need to do a clean install on a replacement hard drive so it is
important to make sure you will have the ability to do this before you
try to fix thing the problem with the existing hard drive. Using chkdsk
/ f can cause wholesale file corruption so you need to to have a
complete copy of Windows XP you can use if this happens.
The logging of chkdsk operations is through Event Viewer but the
information provided is not very detailed. You can get more information
using chkdsk but in a different way to that which I think you have
tried. Check the hard drive for bad sectors by running chkdsk c: /r. The
omission of /f is deliberate. It will not take so long and just reports.
Post a complete copy of what it says. It can be the /f option that leads
to file corruption.
Another less intrusive way to investigate your hard drive is to use HD
Tune.
Try HD Tune only gives information and does not fix any
problems.
Download and run it and see what it turns up. You want HD Tune
(freeware) version 2.55 not HD Tune Pro (not Freeware) version 3.00.
http://www.hdtune.com/
Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive
letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard )
and copy into a further message.
Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy to
Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Make sure you do a full
surface scan with HD Tune.
I would also like to see a copy of the Stop Error Report.
Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should help by
allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click on
the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties, Advanced,
Start-Up and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck box before
Automatically Restart.
Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure until you have
resolved the problem. Check for variants of the Stop Error message.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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laurie wrote:
> had bsod yesterday and their was a error reported in event viewer for
> 1003. i posted mindump at site and they said to do a defrag and
> chksck frag went find but when doing the chkdsk i had message come up
> that their where the disk does not have enough space to replace bad
> clusters detected in file 129592 of name and it said this for about
> 15 minutes all other tests where fine. i went into event viewer but
> could find nothing for winlogon. wanted to know how bad the drive is.
>
> any idea why there is no log and is there another way to check
> without it taking 3 hours.