chkdsk ??

[Lyrima]

I'm thinking of taking the tower to Bestbuy or some place that will fix it for me.  I'm not sure I want to muck about with this problem; it's my D drive and it has EVERYTHING I want to save.

Pictures, music...more pictures...

THAT drive was never supposed to be troubled...no program or internet has ever touched it!

Volume on drive D may be corrupted.  Run chkdsk.

IF I wanted to try to do this myself, how do I do it? From what I've read, it wants me to go into msdos to put in the command...?  I used to get into MSDOS  from either a restart or a little window I could call up when up and running.

[Lyrima]

What's been happening is that the D drive isn't recognized by my computer...at all.  Big old question mark on it.  Then when I restart, the D drive comes back for a while. 

Every night I hibernate my computer.  Some days it comes out of sleep and I have my d drive, some days I don't.  Last night I tried to hibernate and got the 'run chckdsk' message.

[Lyrima]

So.  I read how to do this, and was ready to do so, but realized that the computer doesn't even SEE the drive right now.  I can't check that which is showing up as invalid.

Do I have to wait until the computer recognizes at some random restart and THEN run chckdsk ?

[Jezerai]

There should be a utility for that in your programs.  I think under tools.

[Lyrima]

I'll use the utility now that I can see the disk drive! 

However, first I am backing up the drive on the brand spanking new external H/D I bought.

[Jasyn]

I had a "data only" drive that exhibited behavior like that once upon a time.  It was becoming increasingly unreliable and rather obviously was beginning its final death throes, so I replaced it.  Newer, larger drives were becoming so cheap!