"dirty" drive in xp machine

Encountered an old win xp machine having "dirty" drive and then the said machine simply crashed.

How do you resolve?

Method 1:

First, check whether if the machine can be booted in windows or not.

If the machine is able to boot in windows, then perform a scandisk or chkdsk by invoking in the command prompt or simply use the windows check disk / scandisk.

If unable to boot in windows, then we need to check for the error messages and work on from there.

Then restart the machine and see if there any more problems.

There is also another method to do too:

Method 2:

Power on the machine, then go to F8 to go to Advanced startup options.

Select safe mode with command prompt. You will see the display of the windows system files being loaded.

After a short while, you will encounter a command prompt. Invoke this: chkdsk c: (if you have d drive, then chkdsk d: )

chkdsk or simply check disk is a system tool to verify the file system integrity on hard drives, etc and fixes logical file system errors.

And let the chkdsk tool run and if it needs to fix, then run chkdsk /f

Then restart your machine to see if there are any problems.


- wong chee tat :)