save my hard disk allocation error cross linked hi while running the ms quick c compiler in a dos window under windows this evening i got a program has violated system integrity close all applications exit windows and restart your computer error i started to do this when i immediately got a serious disk error message from windows hit return to retry i did that about times and then rebooted to find that quite a few files have been corrupted somehow i am including the chkdsk output below questions is there an easy way to restore everything to working order what might be some better approaches what might have caused this does the smartdrv cache make me more vulnerable i m suspicious of hard drive caches especially when they cache data writing the straightforward approach would be to run chkdsk with the f option to fix the disk and then it looks like i would probably have to reinstall windows and a few other things thanks for your comments and suggestions brad banko ps this is a sx machine with a mb hard drive and mb of ram chkdsk output volume serial number is d errors found f parameter not specified corrections will not be written to disk c gfx vpic cvpic exe allocation error size adjusted c gfx vpic vpic txt allocation error size adjusted c gfx vpic video cfg allocation error size adjusted c gfx vpic orcpro cfg allocation error size adjusted c gfx vpic vga cfg allocation error size adjusted c game goose bird x allocation error size adjusted c winmisc adv winadv exe allocation error size adjusted lost allocation units found in chains bytes disk space would be freed c gfx vpic cvpic exe is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic geno cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic tri b cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic ts hi cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic config doc is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic vpic txt is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic video cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic defincon cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic atiwondr cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic geno cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic oak cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic hires cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic aheada cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic vpic doc is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic orcpro cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic everx cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic wait com is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic maxxon cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic wait doc is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic everx cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic ega cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic config exe is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic readme st is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic vga cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c game goose bird x is cross linked on allocation unit c windows system sound drv is cross linked on allocation unit c windows games grp is cross linked on allocation unit c windows mad bmp is cross linked on allocation unit c mage demo a kin is cross linked on allocation unit c mage demo b kin is cross linked on allocation unit c mage pkin exe is cross linked on allocation unit c winmisc games dialword exe is cross linked on allocation unit c winmisc games dialword txt is cross linked on allocation unit c winmisc adv winadv wri is cross linked on allocation unit c winmisc adv adv key is cross linked on allocation unit c winmisc adv adv rec is cross linked on allocation unit c winmisc adv freezer is cross linked on allocation unit c spart par is cross linked on allocation unit c bng mbx is cross linked on allocation unit bytes total disk space bytes in hidden files bytes in directories bytes in user files bytes available on disk bytes in each allocation unit total allocation units on disk available allocation units on disk total bytes memory bytes free brad banko dept of physics u of illinois b banko uiuc edu see one do one teach one de kb cne n lnq il
