Checking OS Disk with errors - not working!!

kittykat500

I tried pressing F8 again on start up and a quick msg flashed up, the gist of which is : The type of system is RAW and cannot run chkdsk on this system. Anyone know what this means pls?

Psychofly

Can you boot into Windows at all now ? RAW suggests that the system maybe isn't recognising the formatting of your hard drive.

stuartk

kittykat500 wrote: »

I tried pressing F8 again on start up and a quick msg flashed up, the gist of which is : The type of system is RAW and cannot run chkdsk on this system. Anyone know what this means pls?

hi there

can u actually boot into this system

sounds like the hard drive is going south but that could be down to a lot of things and maybe not the hard drive itself

have u thouroughly scanned this system for viruses / spyware / malware etc

regards

kittykat500

Have run the CCleaner and deleted the files it found. Cannot run my own 'Virgin' Broadband anti-virus because it crashes after 3%. Should I try re-downloading 'Virgin' anti-virus?
The computer appears to be working OK in most programs apart from IE7 and Firefox (which has now been uninstalled) tried to reinstall Firefox but it crashed.

stuartk

hi there

no try downloading malware bytes anti malware and do a full scan with that:

get it here:

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

regards

Psychofly

Instead of running chkdsk try typing this in the command prompt

sfc /scannow

Try this in Start....Run.. cmd initially. If that doesn't work try running it in Safe Mode with Command Prompt. Definitely sounds like your hard disc is giving you problems though.

kittykat500

stuartk wrote: »

hi there

if u have a torrent client then go here:

http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/

regards

Don't have a torrent client - if I knew how to go about getting one, would it be worth doing it?

stuartk

hi there

id try the malware scan first

regards

kittykat500

stuartk wrote: »

try downloading malware bytes anti malware and do a full scan with that:

get it here:

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

This link doesn't work for me unfortunately.

stuartk

works for me, what do u get?

perhaps some strange redirects?

regards