hey all

so here's the deal. Its time for my biweekly running of Norton Systemworks 2003 , so drop the disk in, launch untilities and....Blah! I'll cut to the chase.

According to disk doctor, the BITMAP volume on my hard drive is reporting wrongly. I can't fix the errors in Windows XP because Norton needs access to the drive (or some crap along those lines). It suggests that it allow a scan at the next reboot to fix the problem.

Now what I want to know is, how safe is this? Earlier this evening the laptop crashed in full glory (BSOD with coding) and then reset itself. I'm wondering if this has anything to with what norton brought up.

any help would be wonderful

It should be perfectly safe as long as you don't lose the power during the scan.

Just in case Norton doesn't do this automatically, to set this boot scan you can go to your drive properties in My Computer and run Chkdsk from one of the tabs in there. Select the advanced scan, and it will prompt you to do it in the next reboot.

I highly dont recommend you to do this!
When I did it, it f***ed my computer.
When it was finished it said "Restarting Computer..." and it wasnt restarting it.
I had to restart it myself and when it was booting it had to do the scan disc again!
So i dont think its safe...