[PeterD]

Sorry about the mess on my previous entry. Here it is in clear.

Hi,

I am running WXP Home, SP2 on a desktop.

Recently I found System Restore not working. It would neither restore to an earlier time nor create a new restore pioint. I tried doing a virus scan using Avast, rebooting, checking that it was (supposed to be) running and safe mode.

Disconnecting from the Internet and turning off antivirus and firewall also made no difference.

I also turned it off and on again. I noticed that initially it said it was monitoring drives C, D & E but after turning on again it only showed drives C & D. These drives are all partitions on my HD.

On Checking E I found that it had no file system and was advised to format it. On attempting this I got "Format did not complete successfully"

I also attempted to Defrag and got "Disk Defragmenter could not start"

Does anyone know what is going on and how to correct it?

Best, PeterD