CluelessNewbie

It doesn't look good. I have a real windows xp disk I boot from the cd. I choose repair. I try the chkdsk c: /r And it replies ... after along time checking 52% ... Your disk has unrecoverable problems.... I try chkdsk c: /r again and this time it gets to 62% ... Your disk has unrecoverable problems... So I reboot and and during the first post SMART says that my drive failure is imminent and I should backup ... I try recover again and this time it takes a long time to even detect the disk... It looks like my computer disk drive is saying goodbye..

I get to the recovery console, but I can't cd to c:/windows/system32 to run the sfc. It only see's the d:/winnt directory

Another dumb question> I boot from the xp cd , I get a menu, of install xp, repair or quit? How do I get to run sfc /scannow ?

Thanks, I'm going to try the scan...

So I should boot from the CD and type sfc /scannow or do a repair install and then do the windows updates? Which is better?

Yes!

Thanks for the quick reply! No just used the default stuff. There were about 600 items to be cleaned. I didn't know what each of them were. I downloaded and installed the latest version as of yesterday. June 25, 2009

Windows won't boot after I ran ccleaner. I can't boot in any mode: Neither safe/safe with networking/ start windows normally/ start last known good boot etc , etc, I've tried them all. Windows seems to start to boot up up then it instantly reboots. I think there is a flash of a blue screen before it reboots. After installing a running CCleaner I ran the analyze cleaned everything. Then I cleaned the registry. I had to do it 6 times each time I saved the registry and it cleaned more things until it found nothing to clean. Then I edited the start up and removed some items, Yahoo, adobe update, palm sync, quicktime update, something for an hp printer monitor. Then I rebooted. What should I do?