Shenan, thanks for the reply, this only started after installing some camera
software, which I have uninstalled. The laptop is only six months old and
still under guarantee, do you think its definately a hard disk problem or is
it worth running some disk doctor software?
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Elmo68


"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> 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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