On Jul 4, 11:08*pm, "Billericay Pete" <billericaypete@xxxxxx>
wrote:
Quote:
> WOW - thanks for all your help and suggestions!!
> My neighbour had an old wired keyboard in his loft - plugged that in and
> problem solved!!
>
> Interesting that neither Bluetooth nor USB wireless kbds worked in this
> instance, whereas both work to access Startup BIOS POST etc - which is also
> before the op sys has loaded.... ?? only a wired PS-2 style kbd would work
>
> I guess maybe had I left it to complete a further scan, it may have
> completed successfully i just just didn't want to wait another 4ish hours..
> The long pause with just a static DOS screen for many minutes was too
> frustrating 1st time round - if i'd left overnight would prob had the
> desktop showing in the morn.... hey ho, i'll try one day - maybe
>
> I have been ripping quite heavily, so it is poss as suggested in the link
> provided by kword88 that indexing hasn't caught up yet - not too bothered
> really.
>
> Thanks again to all for your helpful replies
>
> Pete
>
> "Billericay Pete" <billericaypete@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>
> news:uD2a5BN$JHA.5092@xxxxxx
> Quote:
> > I've been ripping CD's to disk. During this process, there are 2 folders
> > that have files in them, I can listen to them, but 'properties' shows that
> > the folders contain 0 bytes.
> > If I try and move either of these folders or delete them I get the message
> > that the folder is no longer in that location, but I can still play the
> > files inside these folders! I've tried renaming them, but as they aren't
> > where they're supposed to be - I can't.
> Quote:
> > So I thought I'd run a disk check on my D: drive
> > The disk check completed after nearly 4 hours and found no problems (I
> > also request bad sector checks) there was no on-screen instruction as to
> > what to do when the process finished, so after several minutes I pressed
> > the on/off switch to force a re-boot
> > Then it started the disk check again, but can be interrupted by pressing
> > the Enter key within 10 secs.
> > I pressed the enter key - no response - I thought that as I have a
> > bluetooth kbd/mouse this may be the problem
> > so I connected a wireless USB keyboard and re-booted - still the Enter key
> > has no effect and the disk check was initialized again
> > I do not have a wired keyboard so I can't seem to be able to perform a
> > normal boot, my only option seems to be to run disk check forever as it
> > starts automatically every time I boot
> Quote:
> > I tried going into setup on booting (so my Bluetooth kbd worked at this
> > stage) - no options there to help
> Quote:
> > Any suggestions as to how I can get out of this loop please and secondary,
> > any ideas as to where these folders are - I have searched for files within
> > the folders but advanced search shows 0 results. If I search for the
> > folders themselves, search shows that they are where I thought they are,
> > but the system does not *think they are there .
> Quote:
> > Many thanks
> > Pete
You'll have e-mail, Pete.