Disk error checking message

stevem999

Hi everyone,

Just recently, my Vista Home Premium laptop has started displaying a warning message during start-up (white text on black screen before it gets to desktop) saying that one or more of my disks may have an error and needs checking. It then starts a countdown to allow me to cancel it if I want. However I would like it to check the disk, but if I leave the countdown to expire, just before it gets down to 1, it says 'disk checking cancelled' or something similar and then carries on and starts up normally.

I tried to do a manual check through the control panel tools but it says it can't do it whilst it's in use and will schedule it for the next time I turn it on, but nothing additional seems to happen, just get the messages as described above every time and they won't go away I'm a bit concerned to be honest and wonder if anyone can tell me what is going on? Is it a virus of some sort or is my disk on its way out?

Thanks

PeterPerfect

You will need to boot from a floppy/cd and run the relevant disk checking programs from that. Once the OS mounts a disk, then you will not be able to do any disk checks. The good point is that it sounds like you can get into the OS. Thus it is nothing to do with the boot part of the disk.

stevem999

Thanks for that, however my HP laptop only came with a recovery partition, not a CD/DVD - how would I go about putting the disk check utilities on a CD/DVD?

PeterPerfect

Check out this site for how to create a disk http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=622