Elmo68 wrote:
> I have a laptop running XP home and every time I boot it, it runs
> chkdsk which is taking a couple of hours. It reports segments are
> unreadable. Is there anyway to stop this happening? If I hit escape
> prior to the chkdsk it just seems to freeze.

Yes..
Replace the bad hardware. Your hard drive has obvious (and reported to you)
issues.

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