Hi Justin Thank you very much for that, I have done that and everything is fine. Since I did a defrag yesterday I haven't had anymore error report message, strange. Best wishes Debbie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin R" <mypc128@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:11 PM Subject: [access-uk] disk error checking Hi Debbie, there is yes. you need to go to my computer. locate your c drive. launch the menu by right clicking or keyboard equivalent. go to properties then tab too tools, there's the error checking section that you first come to. click on that botton, make sure you've got the all boxes ticked in that dialogue box. press enter and on next start up , it'll scan for you! Justin