Re: CHKDSK /r/p unrecoverable errors

Nigel Andrews wrote:
This may have an obvious answer.

Having had WinXP (Media Center) give booting problems, I have run
chkdsk /r /p.
It reported 3 times "CHKDSK is performing additional checking or
recovery...."

Then after 33% it said "The volume appears to contain one or more
unrecoverable problems"

Is this indicating a problem which reformatting and reinstalling will
clear, or is this more likely a hardware error (e.g., disk fault)?

Thanks

Nigel

Most hard drive manufacturers have free diagnostic software you can
download. Backup your data and run the diagnostics from the manufacturer of
your drive. This will give you a good indication of whether or not it's a
hardware problem.

Kerry


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