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4/22/2005 8:21:44 AM, Logged by: John Pinkerton - Harry's computer is acting up.

This message came up this morning.
winlogon.exe - Corrupt file

The file or directory C:\$Mft is corrupt and unreadable.
Please run Chkdsk utility.

4/25/2005 9:47:47 AM, Logged by: John Pinkerton - Increased his pagefile setting (Was at 0MB) --> started a chkdsk and waiting to hear back on the results.
4/25/2005 10:04:27 AM, Logged by: John Pinkerton - Still waiting for chkdsk to finish.
4/25/2005 10:27:56 AM, Logged by: John Pinkerton - chkdsk restarted, but the volume is no longer labeled as "dirty". Waiting for it to finish still.
4/25/2005 10:55:07 AM, Logged by: John Pinkerton - Came back clean on the chkdsk.
4/25/2005 11:11:21 AM, Logged by: John Pinkerton - After all that - the system revereted back to 0MB page file, and was labled "dirty" again at next boot and required to run a chkdsk. Scanning for viri now.
4/25/2005 11:32:53 AM, Logged by: John Pinkerton - Computer is clean. Still having errors at bootup with the pagefile and winlogon.
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Anyone have ANY ideas? Anyone run into this before? I've never heard/seen/experienced problems with winlogon.
 
did you run chkdsk from within windows, or from the recovery console? If it was from within windows try chkdsk C: /f from the recovery console.
 
if that doesnt work, a format may be in order. I found a post on another site that said format it to fat32 then convert it to ntfs
 
techguy said:
if that doesnt work, a format may be in order. I found a post on another site that said format it to fat32 then convert it to ntfs
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Formatting and re-building should solve the problem anyway, unless it's a hardware problem (unlikely), in which case the only solution would be to replace the hardware.

I'd try re-installing or repairing windows before formatting. If it works, great, and if not, format.
 
Will try this when I'm in the office tomorrow - I wanted to try and avoid the ulmighty format if possible.

If the recovery console solution doesn't work - will pry end up formatting it.
 
Try CHKDSK /r. You may have a dying drive (bad sectors) the /r option relocates data in bad sectors to new sectors. Lastly your master file table (MFT) may be out of room or badly fragmented. Try something like diskkeeper to defrag the mft and resize it.
 
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