Justin - The only way I can get to the command propis using the Vista Recovery disk & getting to the system recovery options. At the command prompt window I get X:\Sources>. I type in what you suggested & I get "chkdsk is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file". However, when I just run chkdsk it runs & tells me that there is 3086 KB of total space - my drive is 200GB. There are no bad sectors 2485KB in use by the system, 2048KB occupied by the log file, 597KB available. Apparently it does not see the rest of the drive. I tried changing it from X to some other letter like C, I get "the device is not ready". BTW, I tried doing choosing thecomplete restore option & it cannot find the operating system. Any ideas?
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Terry - I have only one HD. When I try "repair your computer" I get "windows cannot repair this computer automatically. Going into "problem signiture" I get a list of items the most interesting being "NoHardDrive" & Diabosis & Repair Details, Test Performed, System Disk Test completed successfully, error code: 0x0. And Root cause found - A hard disk could not be found. However, as I have said previously, running chkdsk, a hard drive is found, but only a very small portion of it. Any ideas?