Final solution:
Backed up the C drive
Ran Maxtor's diag on the drive and set all bits to zero
Reformatted the drive with NTFS
Reloaded o/s and programs
No more dirty drive.
Their has to be a better way but I never found it. Thanks for all the
suggestions.
Larry

"Larry" wrote:

> On my C drive that is running WinXP Pro, I was moving files between
> directories. During the process my system burped causing the dirty bit to get
> set. Now chkdsk wants to run each time I start the system. The two files that
> are corrupt are JPG files in MY RECEIVED FILES directory and not system
> files. I can not delete them, rename them, copy over top of them, or move
> them. When I try anything with the files, an error message comes up that the
> files or folders are corrupt. I have read all kinds of information in
> different forums and nothing has worked to get rid of these files. Chkdsk /f
> does not fix the files. I have read that chkntfs /d will clear the dirty bit,
> but will that fix the corrupt files. It seems like the only fix is to do a
> backup of the C drive, reformat the C Drive, and copy all the files back to
> the hard drive except the corrupt files. If someone has some other ideas, I
> sure am listening. Thanks for your help.