I think my Drive D is acting up, but doing a Chkdsk in Windows freezes the system while it stumbles over the drives problems. Is there any way I can schedule a check for boot time? Usually Windows will offer to do this but only when the drive is in use, and as it isn't, I don't know how I can schedule a check? Cheers

You could try booting from something like bartpe Cd and running chkdsk there (though will be XP/2k3 version) Or make the drive in use (eg, put part of pagefile on it) - then would get option. I'm sure with some investigation can find the marker windows uses to schedule a check - if can do that, could add one manually for D: rather than C: (eg, run something like regmon - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/... then schedule a C: drive check and see if you can see what entry has been written to enable that).

Alex2002 - You may want to check out the following article. It tells you how schedule Disk Check at bootup in Windows Vista. Guide to Using Check Disk in Windows Vista Let us know if it works for you. i_Xp/VistaUser

Start in safe mode and try it. Get a hardware diag cd/floppy that has the hard drive utilities. I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.