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Thanks all.

I started the pc up and after 1/4 hour the desktop appeared (albeit not working quite right). I tried to system restore but kept getting the corrupt file message.

Then unistalled sp1 which did not completely disappear. Then uninstalled again. It went but still kept going into chkdsk on startup and taking 10 minutes to get to desktop.

Have just turned it on again and touch wood started fine and seems ok.

Many thanks all. Thanks Jamie for the tip too!