>NT comes with CheckDisk. Fire up the disk administrator, select the drive, right-click -> Properties, then click the Tools tab, and hit the error checking button. I don't know if that would have fixed Eric's problem but its there.
I'm sorry, but I can find no Disk Administrator. Perhaps it's not part of the LAN installation. I also tried a search on check*, but found nothing like it...
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