I'm on a Windows XP home Toshiba laptop, SP3 and I having a problem I havent come across before....
After a reboot, I'm getting corrupt file messages from 'Panda Media Booster' and from the profile FOLDER in Firefox, so I ran a normal chkdsk and that doesnt solve the problem, so I set it to run a full chkdsk on startup, but the problem is when it boots and gets to the blue screen, it tells me that it "Cannot open volume for direct access' and skips the scan and boots normally, I have never had a problem running a chkdsk before now, so I cant get rid of the currupt files and also I cannot get Firefox to run, can anyone help me out with this?
Thanx....
Run  chkdsk  from the safe mode and/or  sfc /scannow.  sfc is a system file checker.  sfc will replace corrupt system files.  ( Will need an OS installation disk. )

Tap  F8 as you BOOT and choose safe mode with command prompt.

C:\>chkdsk  /?
Checks a disk and displays a status report.


CHKDSK [volume[[path]filename]]] [/F] [/V] [/R] [/X] [/I] [/C] [/L[:size]]


  volume          Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon),
                  mount point, or volume name.
  filename        FAT/FAT32 only: Specifies the files to check for fragmentation
.
  /F              Fixes errors on the disk.
  /V              On FAT/FAT32: Displays the full path and name of every file
                  on the disk.
                  On NTFS: Displays cleanup messages if any.
  /R              Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information
                  (implies /F).
  /L:size         NTFS only:  Changes the log file size to the specified number
                  of KILOBYTES.  If size is not specified, displays current
                  size.
  /X              Forces the volume to dismount first if necessary.
                  All opened handles to the volume would then be invalid
                  (implies /F).
  /I              NTFS only: PERFORMS a less vigorous check of index entries.
  /C              NTFS only: Skips checking of cycles within the folder
                  structure.

The /I or /C switch REDUCES the amount of time required to run Chkdsk by
skipping certain checks of the volume.

C:\>That worked, thank you billrich..... Quote from: fullbug on July 01, 2009, 06:16:27 PM

That worked, thank you billrich.....