[markd60]

Well, I have read all the stuff on the microsoft website. I have run chkdsk from "My Computer", (drive letter, properties, tools) I have run it from a DOS prompt. I have tried everyone's suggestions.
I've run it at startup dozens of times, I purchased Norton Systemworks after spending hours on hold to ask if it could fix this problem and they said it could but it can't. It can't take over because the volume is in use and then runs the same 'ol microsoft chkdsk at startup.
I still get the same error message I posted previously. I don't know why it can be fixed for everybody but me.
I've had this problem on m 8088, my 386, my 486 my 100 mhz pentuim and now my 3.2 gig laptop. I've had this problem in DOS, windows 3.1, 95, 98 2000 and XP. XP is the only one I haven't been able to fix it on. It is the free space on the disk being misread. It has always been fixed in the past when it asks "convert lost chains to files? Y N". Then you find a folder on c: drive called "FOUND.000"
I think it can't be fixed because of NTFS.
performance-wise, it's a minor problem, but nevertheless, I'm considering starting over with a clean install. I don't have a Windows XP Home CD, just the disk that came with the laptop.
Sorry about my attitude but I'm disgusted, I've never been an XP fan.