truncated?!

A few weeks back my computer froze so I shut it off by the button. When I booted it back up I ran disk check and it started listing all these files being "truncated". I can\'t shut down using my OS, and all the files that we truncated wont work. WTF is going on

I took a quick look around the MS site, and found a couple of solutions there.  This happens when files try to write themselves to their own directory (I dunno how that happened during a crash).

It all depends on the operating system your using.  If I\'m understanding you correctly, important files have been truncated from like systemregisty.lst (examples) to systemre.lst or system~1.lst, right?  If your using a more moden windows, you can do a kernel restore from the install CD, which will recopy the key system files.  If not, you have two options... a full re-install, or, if you can figure out the full names your missing, you can re-name the files to their original un-truncated lengths.

If the files are actually corrupt... well, then renaming them won\'t help at all.

Thanks tons man, I\'m going to do that kernel thing (using XP)