hello,

I am having a problem with my computer (OS windows xp home edition). When I turn it on it a blue screen comes up that says: 'checking file system on: C Type of file FAT32' then it runs through all the files and they all say something like 'allocation not valid, file will be truncated'? and then it goes on the the welcome screen and suddenly shuts off. I've tried restarting on safe mode and that just takes me to a black screen with a lot of #'s and letters and shuts down again. I've skipped the disk check and managed to get onto my home screen but it shuts down before I can check anything. I've already tried the 'shutdown -i' command, but it still shuts down after a couple of seconds. I want to do a system restore but it says there is no set restoration point. Oh! and most of the files say they are "corrupted". I would really appreciate some help or advice. I have some photographs saved on my computer which I would not like to lose.

 

Thank you!