I own a Lenovo T61 Thinkpad (T series) and the other day out of no where I got the dreaded blue screen. I restarted my computer and during Windows startup it switched to the blue screen - I can't start windows. I'm getting an error message that says "The file or directory X:\minint\inf\INFCACHE.1 is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility."
- The X drive is the drive that windows refers to when Windows is not running - it represents the C drive.
My main problem is that I have a laptop given to me from my college, so a lot of things are disabled - such as booting from a device other than the harddrive, or accessing any bios settings. System restore is also disabled.
So.. my question is, how can I run the Chkdsk utility without starting windows? And if I can't.. how can i access and download this INFCACHE.1 file?
- The X drive is the drive that windows refers to when Windows is not running - it represents the C drive.
My main problem is that I have a laptop given to me from my college, so a lot of things are disabled - such as booting from a device other than the harddrive, or accessing any bios settings. System restore is also disabled.
So.. my question is, how can I run the Chkdsk utility without starting windows? And if I can't.. how can i access and download this INFCACHE.1 file?