Windows XP not loading - Stuck doing Check Disk at 87%

Hello,

Yesterday I started my laptop as usual and instead of the normal Welcome screen a screen popped up saying that Disk D needs to be check ....

Apparently there's a corrupted file called FOUND.000 in disk D.
The disk scan was stuck at 87% of the process....

To load the OS i have to skip the scan disk....
I really don't know how all this happened....

I tried to defrag the system but it didn't let me becasue of the mentioned corrupted file.

Can anyone help me to solve this problem?

Thanks for your attention.

 

I tried to delete this file but the system is not letting me because it is corrupted.

This might be because I stopped the Check disk while scanning and restarted by holding the power key for 5 secs. Then I skipped the scan disk to load the OS as normal.

How can I solve this problem....?

 

Actually, I don't believe the file named "Found.000" was the (original) source of your problem. Reading through a few hits that come up when I google found.000 indicates that this file is where Chkdsk puts stuff that it's found and is trying to save, e.g., as discussed on this neowin forum thread.

If chkdsk started automatically, that probably means that you had a pretty serious error - possibly including a hard drive that's beginning to fail and is starting to corrupt the system files, that's how I usually end up getting mandatory chkdsk visits.

The Found.000 file may now be corrupted because you stopped the chkdsk operation in midstream - depending on how you stopped it, that could have left a whole bunch of files open, which might have created corruption in those files.

I would boot up and schedule another run of chkdsk on your system partition (it won't go immediately, but has to be scheduled to run before the OS boots up next time you start the system up) - and, most importantly, have the patience to let it work through what it has to go through - I once spent several hours waiting for chkdsk to recover a good chunk of what was a thoroughly trashed file system.

 

Thanks a lot Shyster!!!

Your post makes sense.
I will try to be more patience next time. Probably I will let chkdisk to run at night!! Yes it takes a lot of time to scan!!!

Do you think I will have HD problems after running the chkdisk ??
Bad sectors etc... and bring in the risk of losing data....?

Thanks for your help!!!

 

Use HDtune to scan your hdd for "bad" sector and let chkdisk run overnight to attempt to recover the data.