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Blue Screen of Death Options??
Avinitlarge:
I would buy a small HD, 10Gb or so. Install windows on it, Use the drive you have fitted at the moment as a secondary/Slave. See how it goes from there. If its just an OS problem, Your mame, Docs or what ever you have on there should be safe. If you have no windows disk, See if you could borrow one or get one from a source I am not allowed to mention ;)
Encryptor:
It probably wasn't the defrag that did the damage. It was probably the disk cleanup which I NEVER do. I've never had defrag cause a problem like this.
Try the chkdsk /r solution first.
Encryptor
Ummon:
Man, I haven't seen 'the screen' in ages on my XP machines.
Encryptor:
Flake,
Check your email.
Encryptor
KissMyWookie:
What probably happened was the defrag moved data onto a sector that turned out to be bad ... though I assumed defrag tools verified the data after moving it?
If you have access to another PC, I would download and use "Hiren's Boot CD". It has lots of repair and recovery tools, along with a mini-XP that you can boot into to perform repair tasks on NTFS partitions.
Usually, you would burn it onto a CD (less than 120MB) and select the BIOS on the target machine to boot from the CD drive. You can also install it onto a flash drive (like I did the last time I used it), providing the BIOS allows you to boot from USB flash drives.
Once booting starts and you see a menu, select to boot XP-lite/mini-XP (or whatever it's called - can't remember exactly). Open Windows Explorer and find your drive letter, as they will all be different to what you're used to - the mini XP will take C: and there will also be a ramdrive setup to take another drive letter. When you know which drive letter your old system is on, open the command window (WINKEY+R -> "cmd.exe" -> ENTER) and type "chkdsk [driveletter]: /r" - where [driveletter] might be D, E or something.
The full surface scan will take a long time, but will try to locate the bad sectors and attempt to recover information. You may end up with something that still needs fixing - such as a driver file or windows executable that was corrupted and could not be repaired, but I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.
Steve