[SkyEagle]

I have loads of Windows XP questions I'm hoping people can help out with - basically regarding an installation with SP2 that hasn't been run for long, but a few other stuff too.

First one being this: I set it to do a disk check and then when I rebooted it, the thing hung. Eventually I tried to reboot it in safe mode. The thing hung again.

So I pull out my XP disk and do the recovery console thing, I find my C drive is inaccessible. Furthermore, I eventually run chkdsk and have it repair the disk - after I do that, the thing was mangled beyond all recognition still and I had to do a reinstall to repair things enough so it would boot up.

The main question is "why?" and is there an issue with this happening in SP2? Is there a chance of it happening again, and is there any better way to approach it other than having to reinstall the whole XP (which btw leads into another of my many questions, but we'll take it one thread at a time)?

I reformatted the disk after I could get my files off of there and reinstalled XP along with SP2. So hopefully this won't be a soon reoccurring issue.

[theefool]

My question is. Where did the computer "hang" at? Was it during the chkdsk process? Sometimes running chkdsk takes a huge amount of time and sometimes not. Pending on hdd size and speed.

[SkyEagle]

the chkdsk process shows a status screen. This just sat with HD activity going on. On the trace it does in safe mode, it ran through a bunch of SYS files and hung up soon after (MUP2.SYS was the last one shown if my memory is correct).

[theefool]

So, the hard drive was getting activity, and you just shut the machine down?