Sean McAndrew
April 4th 03, 12:26 PM
When I switched on my computer this morning I was confronted with a light
blue screen and the computer started to perform chkdsk.
When I opened Outlook 2002 it told me that my mailbox.pst was not a Personal
Folder File.
On inspection I saw that it was now down to the size of 0 bytes in my
settings folder, compared to an older backup version which is nearly 150MB.
I ran scanpst but it said that my mailbox.pst was not large enough to
contain any data, which at 0 bytes isn't an unexpected response.
My other .pst files seem OK, together with their respective backup files.
The backup for my main one [mailbox.pst] is over two weeks old so I would be
missing emails of the interim period.
When I tried a System Restore within XP it came back to me saying it
couldn't.
I have over 95GB of free space on my harddrive and had the slider to the max
for system restore allottable space.
I tried numerous restore points - all with no success.
Checking the System Event viewer in Computer Management doesn't give me any
clues really.
There are no recent 'sr' instances but a few 'Unable to start a DCOM server
ones'.
There was a 'ntfs' event Error at 2.47 pm yesterday that said that 'The file
system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusabel. Please run the chkdsk
utility on the volume C'
I was messing about with IIS 5.1 yesterday afternoon (around 5pm) and just
browsing using IE6 at about 9.45pm when I shutdown.
Any help gratefully received
Sean
_______________________________________________
Windows XP Professional with all the latest SPs and patches.
Athlon XP 2.2 (1.8 Ghz)
512 MB RAM
120 GB HD all one volume
blue screen and the computer started to perform chkdsk.
When I opened Outlook 2002 it told me that my mailbox.pst was not a Personal
Folder File.
On inspection I saw that it was now down to the size of 0 bytes in my
settings folder, compared to an older backup version which is nearly 150MB.
I ran scanpst but it said that my mailbox.pst was not large enough to
contain any data, which at 0 bytes isn't an unexpected response.
My other .pst files seem OK, together with their respective backup files.
The backup for my main one [mailbox.pst] is over two weeks old so I would be
missing emails of the interim period.
When I tried a System Restore within XP it came back to me saying it
couldn't.
I have over 95GB of free space on my harddrive and had the slider to the max
for system restore allottable space.
I tried numerous restore points - all with no success.
Checking the System Event viewer in Computer Management doesn't give me any
clues really.
There are no recent 'sr' instances but a few 'Unable to start a DCOM server
ones'.
There was a 'ntfs' event Error at 2.47 pm yesterday that said that 'The file
system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusabel. Please run the chkdsk
utility on the volume C'
I was messing about with IIS 5.1 yesterday afternoon (around 5pm) and just
browsing using IE6 at about 9.45pm when I shutdown.
Any help gratefully received
Sean
_______________________________________________
Windows XP Professional with all the latest SPs and patches.
Athlon XP 2.2 (1.8 Ghz)
512 MB RAM
120 GB HD all one volume