Windows XP emergency! What do I do now?

[Jules]

Ok, I downloaded a program called Disk Checker and ran it. Here's what it looked like when it was finished:

[Immortal Wombat]

ok, well your first problem is that godawful colour scheme. get that sorted and the whole thing'll look better.

[Skanky Burns]

Make a bootdisk. Use that bootdisk. Then scan.

[Nubclear]

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[Jules]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Make a bootdisk. Use that bootdisk. Then scan.

How do you make a bootdisk with WinXP? There's no DOS.

[Skanky Burns]

I think even when XP installs, it allows you to create a bootdisk. Can't tell you for sure though, as I don't use XP.

[yaroslav]

You can open "My Computer", press the right button on Drive A, select Formant, and then select 'Create a DOS boot disk'. That works in Windows XP

[Jules]

Thanks for your suggestions, but the problem seems to have worked itself out.

This time when the check disk options came up, I checked "Automatically fix file system errors" before clicking Start. Then a lengthy error message popped up saying that it couldn't perform the scan because it needed exclusive access to certain Windows files. It then asked me if I wanted to schedule the scan for the next time I started Windows, so I clicked Yes and rebooted. So the scan executed, some errors were fixed (can't recall exactly what; it went too fast), and now I can run disk check in Windows again. Problem solved...hopefully.