Recent content by mcw

P.S. Another source suggests using Knoppix to back everything up before a complete reinstall. Does this sound sensible? Might it find directories that Windows can no longer see?

Oh yikes, the more I look the worse it gets. I have looked at CBS.log on another computer, with Notepad. I don't understand much of it but there are lot of files it couldn't repair, including notepad.exe, regedit.exe, write.exe & bfsvc.exe, and some that had 'source file also corrupted'. It...

Thanks. I have copied CBS.log to the desktop and it's now 6.9MB, but with a timestamp of now. I can't get Wordpad to work, though of course I could copy it to another computer. Is there any other way to open it, and/or any risk of having it on another system? I will try the Microsoft link...

Thanks, I have just done this. Verification 100% complete, then "Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them." I looked for the log file it identified (C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log) but this file was dated three days ago (older than the failed...

I think I know the kind you mean - black and white, yes? - but not this time, no. It sat at the 'logging off' blue screen, with the rotating icon, for about 15 minutes, at which point we decided it must have got stuck. Perhaps I should have just left it. I am running sfc /scannow as...

Hello, and sorry to have a first post asking for help. I did a forced shutdown when my PC seemed to be incredibly slow then hanging while logging off. On restarting, I got 'disk read error' repeatedly, after the BIOS boot screen but before any of Windows. I used my Windows install CD to run...