Unable to access documents, some files deleted, unable to delete some files; screw up

[Unfocused]

Today for some reason the WinXP scandisk (or whatever it's called) popped up upon starting Windows, even though it never did (I think since I installed SP2). Even turning the PC off with the power button didn't trigger it before.

The scandisk did some checks n shit, messed with the indexes etc. and started retrieving (or restoring; I'm translating from my Polish version) some files, or file fragments, I'm not sure.

Then (after 20 minutes I got bored) I did something, as it turned out, stupid. I aborted the operation with the only available method - I restarted the PC. Scandisk popped up again, but this time I pressed ENTER to cancel.

I started BF2 and noticed a few stock maps were missing and the game crashed upon clicking join game. Now I can't access my document folder. I can't delete some folders, cause I get a message that they are not empty (even if they are). I have a shortcut on the desktop to the PunkBuster update utility and now it points to a non-existing file (I'm guessing it got deleted).

So generally, shit hit the fan, and a part of my files is screwed. Will letting the scandisk do it's job repair the damage or cause more screwups? I'm thinking of plugging in my empty 40GB HDD and starting fresh from there, but first I'll let scandisk work on my PC for the night.

Before I do so, I'd like to know, is there a chance that it will repair the screwup, or should I not bother and start installing stuff on the other HDD with a fresh XP?

 

[Asus]

Can you let it do the checkdisk again? I've had a file that was messed up from a restart or something and it triggered it to run for me. It fixed the file so I could delete it.

Otherwise back up and start over.

 

[Barney Fife]

I have a bad feeling about this.

Redo scan-disk and see if this fixes it.
When you boot system, do you get "Unable to boot" system errors?
I'm worried for your OS. Scan-disk does not load automatically without something being corrupted or HDD sectors going bad. Aborting scan-disk would also create more havoc once Auto-booted.
Also too many hard-boots do corrupt files and in rare occasions the HDD.
Do what Asus told you and post back here.

Good Luck.

 

[Unfocused]

I let chkdsk do it's job and it looks like it has indeed fixed the problems (at least the one with the files I couldn't delete and the inability to access documents).

Thanks for the replies

 

[Asus]

I let chkdsk do it's job and it looks like it has indeed fixed the problems (at least the one with the files I couldn't delete and the inability to access documents).

Thanks for the replies

Awesome. Hope you don't run into any other issues. :thumbs:

 

[[RnL]Stefan]

were you still using fat32 or ntfs? if you decide to reinstall and still used fat32, use ntfs.

 

[Barney Fife]

I let chkdsk do it's job and it looks like it has indeed fixed the problems (at least the one with the files I couldn't delete and the inability to access documents).

Thanks for the replies

Good Job.:thumbs:

 

[CyberPitz]

Fixed computers are HAPPY computers.