Vince Teachout wrote:
> I had some hard drive sectors go bad on me, and (seem to have)
> successfully recovered them with spinrite. Some of the files on those
> sectors were damaged though, and I keep getting an error on startup
> about General Hosting services failing. Problem is, I don't know what
> file that is. Is there some way to have windows (XP, SP2) check and
> repair system files? Thanks!
>
I would take it that the hard disk contents were toast and reformat it.
I probably wouldn't even trust the hard disk again after a failure as
they are so cheap. If there are files on there you need, then you could
set it as a slave and put on another machine before getting at them to
back them up. You can boot up using your XP disk and try to do the
install and when it prompts for the volume on C drive it should give you
an option to repair this volume.
HTH
Peter
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