Thanks for your prompt reply.  Now I can presumably get the thing to work.

Is there a command that can be entered from the command line that will check the disk for errors?  For example, I can run "defrag" by entering that command, followed by the disk letter.

lmfbr,

Windows is merely asking if you wish to run chkdsk when Windows restarts. You have told it that you do. It will not automatically restart, but will remember that you want to run chkdsk. After you enter Y go to Start|Turn off Computer|Restart. When Windows starts again it will give you a countdown before it starts chkdsk during which you can abort the run if you desire.

You can run chkdsk without any parameters and it will run in read only mode without requiring rebooting. This will alert you to some errors if there are any, but will not fix them. Run Chkdsk  /F and you will get the same message about rebooting to run on restart, but errors, if any, will be repaired after reboot.

Thanks. That was exactly what I needed to know. BTW, I repeated the attempt to do the error check from "properties" ect. And it worked when I restarted the computer.

lmfbr,

You can view a list of all the commands available if you go into Help and Support and search on command-line reference. Each command is listed together with all available switches.