Try searching "Help and Support Center" for "chkdsk" from the start menu. 

Now I am confused,  You said you had Windows XP and the "Help and Support Center" is for XP, where does 98 come in?

Thank you.  I did  and read all that.  Its way over my head.  But it again is for 98 version so this is tough.

Do not use the Knowledge Base, use the Help and Support Center on the start menu.

Message Edited by msgale on 01-10-2004 10:57 PM

It was for 98 model, xp wasn't even shown.  Maybe I am confused.  What would the 98 mean at the end of their topic?  Tomorrow I will look at it again.  Thanks for trying to help me.  Don't know too much about computers as you can tell. 

Annielanecis,

To correct errors on your hard disk you need to run chkdsk with the /f switch. To do this, go to Start|Run, type chkdsk /f (note the space before "/f") and click OK. You will be advised that the program cannot be run because the volume is locked and asked if you would like to run it on the next startup. Type Y and press . When you boot Windows the next time, it will advise you that chkdsk will be run in __ seconds if you don't prevent it. Let it go ahead and run. It will then correct any errors on your disk.

To see the results of running chkdsk in read-only mode, which is what you did, rather than typing chkdsk at Start|Run, go to Start|Run, type cmd and click OK. At the command prompt that appears, type chkdsk and press . When chkdsk finished, it will display its results on the screen (and not simply disappear as it did when you ran it).

Having said that, it is not likely that this will correct the problem you are having uninstalling programs. If you would identify the programs you cannot uninstall and what error messages (if any) you receive when you try to uninstall them, someone will probably be able to provide additional helpful information.

I run cmd

58580990  KD total disk space  6323612 KB  48104 files  13008 KB 1514 indexes   0 KD in bad sectors  17730 KB in use by  by the systems    65536 KB occupied by the log file  52126640 KB available on disk  4096 bytes in each allocation unit  14645247 total allocation units on disk  13031660 allocation units available on disk

Do I have any problems?         

 

It started and got about 5 inches.  Went thru scrifters OK but then it brought up a bunch of about 8 numbers on each line,quite a few so fast I couldn't read them. and disappeared. 

Annielanecis,

It appears that you do not. The critical item in that report is 0 KB in bad sectors.

Thank you so much.  I have been reading the forum and you have helped  many people.  I didn't think this was fixable.  Show you what I know.

Thank again Annie