I did the same thing and it worked for me. I use XP Home and it might be different with XP Professional ----- Original Message ----- From: Pshon Barrett To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 8:59 PM Subject: [bookport] Re: Performing a chkdsk /f on hard drive How did you get this to work? I went to my computer, selected drive C and went down to properties. I didn't have a checkdisk option even when I tried to find it with control tab. ----- Original Message ----- From: Francis E. Khan To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 3:50 PM Subject: [bookport] Performing a chkdsk /f on hard drive Many thanks for all your help. Francis Khan