I'm sure it's simple when you know how but.....
Since upgrading to XP two of my hard drives have become corrupt.
Here's what happened:
On Win98SE I had 4 drives, 2x120GB, 1x160GB and 1x250GB but obviously because Win98 can't deal with anything over 137GB I had the two largest drives limited to partitions of 128 (ish) GB using Partition Magic.
Now I've got XP Pro I thought I would create new partitions above the 137 limit to recover that previously dead space.
Partition Magic seemed to work a treat but when I then tried to clean up and defrag the drives I was told they maybe corrupt and I should run chkdsk to fix them. Also, both partitions have now disappeared from explorer.
Now I know I need to run chkdsk /f to fix but how do I specify which drive it runs on.
At the moment every time I run chkdsk it runs on my system disc only. Doh....
What's the secret please?
Regards

From XP > Under My Computer right click the drive in question then click Properties then Tools then Error Checking > Check Now

Brilliant,
Many thanks.
As always, it's easy if you know where to look. (Not exactly intuitive though, is it?)
Best Regards.

You have to think like Microsoft. ;>)

Thanks for the update and the thanks!

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