Did I do it right?

[angel14995]

OK, earlier this morning I turned on my computer. As per normal functioning, it went through BIOS and then went to the Windows startup screen. I left to go get a Pop-Tart, and when I came back, I got a blue screen (not of death thankfully) saying that the boot drive was unmountable. I seriously had little idea what it was talking about. I remembered that "mounting" is a part of setting up Linux (I got a book that explains Linux, probably never going to be used...). So I assumed that the message meant that the hard drive wasn't giving up the boot information correctly. So for 40+ minutes I was stressing over what to do and was doing things like rebooting, re-rebooting, and making sure everything else was working.

After that 40+ minutes, I remembered that I had a Windows install CD, and popped that in, hoping there was a repair option. There was, and so I told it to repair. It opened up a command-prompt like screen. I was stuck, so I typed in the only thing that I thought could help, and that was CHKDSK. It apparently worked for I'm on the computer right now.

Now my question is, did I handle this right? If not, what should I do now to make sure everything runs smoothly?

Thanks.

[magicdanw]

I think that you did the right thing, It's possible you had a bad sector in the boot area, and chkdisk repaired or moved it, so if it boots now, I think you're set. Note that I'm not sure of what I'm typing, so other people are free to post their ideas.