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turnpike unable to build index (now OT for DIST: chkdsk)
In article , on Sat, 12 Jun
2010, Andy wrote [] I'd suggest that you initiate the chkdsk from within Windows (Start / MyCOmputer / select drive / rightclick / properties / tools / errorcheck). Choose both the options. Reboot to make it happen. It can take quite some time - hours is not unknown. There should be five phases to the check. Some of the messages can relate to system files you didn't know you had, and cannot access (I think they are files created by System Restore). At the end it displays useful messages on what it found - but then reboots itself while you are trying to read them Does anyone know if these are logged, so that they might be read later? ISTR seeing files called something like chkdsk.log on my '98 machines; IIRR, they are in the root of C: (though possibly in the root of whatever drive you're checking). I don't see any on this XP machine, but that could be because I might not have ever run it on here, or because XP puts them somewhere else or calls them something less obvious. I've crossposted this to somewhere that is more likely to know the answer (for XP, anyway). -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. ** 1. If it's green, it's biology 2. If it smells, it's chemistry 3. If it doesn't work, it's physics. |
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