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Windows Prefect file's Corrupt.Help

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Name: ioneskye
Date: July 2, 2008 at 22:11:56 Pacific
OS: winxp
CPU/Ram: 150GHz
Product: intel
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I was doing video editing with Windows Movie Maker. What only takes about 5 minutes of saving now takes 30 minutes. Then this balloon popped up with a message that a certain windows Prefect file is corrupt. I should run chkdisk. Please help. What happened... And how do I run chkdisk. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.



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Name: RTAdams89
Date: July 2, 2008 at 22:34:55 Pacific
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"Prefect" or "Prefetch"?

Anyhow, to run chkdisk, go to your start menu and click "Run...". In that box that opens type "cmd" and press enter.

A black window with white text will open. Type "chkdsk c: /F /R" and press enter. This could take some time to run.

-Ryan Adams
http://RyanTAdams.com


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Response Number 2
Name: Richard59
Date: July 3, 2008 at 03:01:20 Pacific
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Feel free to delete all the contents of the Prefetch folder. Windows will rebuild it

I used to have a signature but it disappeared and I just couldn't be bothered writing another so please feel free to ingore this.


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Response Number 3
Name: ioneskye
Date: July 3, 2008 at 21:35:49 Pacific
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Thank you both for your replies. Yes, it was Prefetch file-- thank you for the correction. =)

I was able to run chkdsk upon restart but it got stuck at 22% for almost 2 hours now. Is there something wrong?


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Response Number 4
Name: RTAdams89
Date: July 4, 2008 at 00:16:33 Pacific
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What stage and operation was it stuck on?

-Ryan Adams
http://RyanTAdams.com


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