qlark, The procedure I gave you is the fix for an MFT error. usually it can pass a chkdsk /r or f scan and just state there is a bad sector in the final info when it is done. this type error does not check as dirty after the error is found and it does not toss you into a chkdsk loop.Can you do a complete defrag without any errors in the log other than normal open file errors?Also the way I said