XP Recovery Console; 'Access is denied'

[John Marsh]

Thanks green granite; I tried SET and was asked for the Security Configuration and Analysis snap-in. I gather that this has to be added to the Microsoft Management Console, before all goes t**s-up, so as Mac says, I'm SOL!

I shall indeed be wiping & reinstalling. I'll see if the HDD manufacturer offers any monitoring/analysis tools. A bigger HDD may well be on the cards.

RAID would be new territory... I have advised re. the importance of data backups, which are usually on optical media & flash drives here.

Thanks for all your advice.