Click on my computer. Go to drive C, if that is the drive you want to check. Press alt-enter for properties. Press ctrl-tab for tools page. There you will find, "Error checking. Check now button." Press either space bar or enter. It will say, "Start button." Tab passed that twice. Check the next two boxes. The next tab is the start button. Press spacebar. You will then get an error message saying Windows can't check the disk, because some of the necessary files are in use, or something to that effect. You will be asked if you want the Check Disk performed the next time you start Windows. Just press the spacebar again. The next time you start your computer, check disk will run. At 08:44 AM 2/22/2005, you wrote: >How do you use chkdsk on a machine running windows XP? Thanks. Kurt Sandy Licht Phone: 409-898-8218 Jeremiah 29:11 - 14A 11For I know the plans I have for you," says the LORD. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 12In those days when you pray, I will listen. 13If you look for me in earnest, you will find me when you seek me. 14I will be found by you," says the LORD...