Can someone help please, I have a corrupt file and at present unable to remove it. I run windows XP and have tried to restore with no success.

You need to be more specific. What file, how do you know it's corrupted, what you have done so far.

I'd run a Standard scan on Scandisk and check "Automatically fix errors." If that fails, well, come back with more details.

Many thanks for your reply the corrupt file is called C:\$Mft. I loaded the EX service pack update and Zone alarm and after that the windows message cam up as "courrypt file C:\Mft". I was unable to run defrag and scan disk because the message then appeared as I tried which read run chkdsk first. I did and still no luck. This file seems to have logged me out of a number of things. I could not restore to a previous state using restore programme. I also seem to not be able to back up my data to totally restore machine. Don't know if above any use to you for ideas but I have none as not that conversant with the intricacies of computer workings.

Many thanks

Tony

Have you tried directly deleting the file?

Go to "My Computer", double click the C: drive, right click the file in question, and click delete.

If that fails, then go to Start>Accesories>MS-DOS Prompt or Command Prompt. When you get the prompt, type "cd C:\" w/o the quotes. Then, you need the file's extension. Type "dir/w". Somewhere in what appeared, you should see your mft and next to it three letters. Type "mft.xyz" w/o the quotes, where xyz is the three letters next to it in the directory.

Problem not solved? Do a web search. Chances are someone else has this problem too. If not, write to a PC magazine and explain your problem. They might be able to do more than I did. Tell them everything that you did and your OS.

Many thanks, have tried what you suggest. Don't know what I did but all OK now.

Many thanks

Tony