Re: server disk error?

the nonsense characters i refer to are displayed when you right click c drive
and select properties. the used space is represented by *++,+,., and other
garbage.
would you like to see the print screen?

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

I cannot see a single "nonsense" character. The files

02/15/2006 12:49 PM 0 DF~154019.tmp
02/15/2006 12:49 PM 256 DF~154450.tmp
02/15/2006 12:50 PM 101 DF~154549.tmp
02/15/2006 12:51 PM 0 DF~15472.tmp

contain a character called "tilde" which is used by Windows
when translating long file names into short file names. Nothing
wrong with those!

You have file system corruption when the date and the time
colums show garbage. Yours look perfectly OK.


"keith" <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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i have a print screen as well showing the "nonsense" characters if you
would
like to take a look

Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is F4F8-346C

Directory of C:\

11/15/2005 09:41 AM 0 AUTOEXEC.BAT
11/15/2005 01:55 PM 208 BOOT.PCP
07/13/2006 03:45 PM 1,805 caisslog.txt
07/13/2006 12:18 PM <DIR> CMDSCombinedMailingList
01/31/2006 03:17 PM <DIR> CMDSExportList
11/15/2005 09:41 AM 0 CONFIG.SYS
09/27/2006 10:32 AM 785 c_prop.bmp
04/14/2006 09:11 AM 177 ddump.txt
02/15/2006 12:49 PM 0 DF~154019.tmp
02/15/2006 12:49 PM 256 DF~154450.tmp
02/15/2006 12:50 PM 101 DF~154549.tmp
02/15/2006 12:51 PM 0 DF~15472.tmp
09/27/2006 10:33 AM 0 dir.txt
08/28/2006 01:32 PM <DIR> Documents and Settings
07/06/2006 05:43 AM <DIR> FromD
11/15/2005 02:09 PM <DIR> IDSServer
08/11/2006 10:24 AM <DIR> Inetpub
11/15/2005 09:55 AM <DIR> Intel
09/06/2006 11:05 AM <DIR> Program Files
07/13/2006 12:19 PM <DIR> StatewiseAddressDetails
12/01/2005 02:04 PM <DIR> TEMP
09/27/2006 08:22 AM <DIR> WINDOWS
11/15/2005 09:41 AM <DIR> wmpub
11 File(s) 3,332 bytes
12 Dir(s) 4,025,540,608 bytes free

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

You could type "dir > c:\dir.txt" from the Command Prompt.


"keith" <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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how should i send it?

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:


"keith" <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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thanks for the headsup, i have a complete backup of the system.

i ran the chkdsk command and it reported no errors?


Perhaps you let us have a screen shot of your "nonsense" characers?









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