ChkDsk- Corrupt Error

[vroom_skies]

Alright heres the deal.

I'm working on a friends laptop and and having an issue with Chkdsk.
Every time on boot-up he is prompted to run chkdsk. However, when he runs chkdsk, he get this error and it closes on him, only to repeat this on every reboot.
So my question is; does anybody know how to repair a corrupt (I'm guessing it's a corrupt something, the error is very vague) entry if chkdsk is unable to?

Here is the error:
-Truncating badly linked attribute records
Segment 10435

Any help would be great,

Thanks
Bob

 

[apj101]

boot into command line
and run chkdisk /r /f
HOWEVER, be sure to back up important files first as they may get lost in the repair
will take a while to finish

 

[vroom_skies]

Thanks for that, but unfortunately the same error prevailed.
Any other ideas?

Thanks
Bob

 

[Cromewell]

I have heard of this being caused by bad RAM before, try giving memtest a run.

 

[Jabes]

if u can get into windows try typing in the run line sfc /scannow

 

[vroom_skies]

All right, heres the update.

So far non of the above methods have worked.
I'm still getting the same old error.

Any more ideas?

Thanks
Bob

 

[Cromewell]

I think the only likely thing left is the drive itself. You could try a full format to try and catch bad sectors. Or you could use the disk checking utilities from the hard drive manufacturer but that might just tell you the drive is about dead.

 

[apj101]

sounds like the drive is dead or dieing