please help!!! hard drive being checked, found bad clusters

[Jared B]

My system performance was stuttering, so i rebooted. On
loading windows XP check disk began running and found 2
bad clusters of name [null], it is now slowly checking the
rest of the drive.

I have data on here i do not want to lose. Can i reboot to
get back into the drive to backup the data? Or will
rebooting screw things up worse than letting it run
through?

PLEASE help!

[D.Currie]

"Jared B" > wrote in message
...
> My system performance was stuttering, so i rebooted. On
> loading windows XP check disk began running and found 2
> bad clusters of name [null], it is now slowly checking the
> rest of the drive.
>
> I have data on here i do not want to lose. Can i reboot to
> get back into the drive to backup the data? Or will
> rebooting screw things up worse than letting it run
> through?
>
> PLEASE help!

Let it run. If the data was corrupted, it was corrupted before the disk
check started, you just didn't know about it.