Why must the most crippling computer problems be the ones that no one has an answer to? I happen to have come upon one of these problems, and it’s the most frusturating thing I’ve had to deal with.

Basically, I am completely locked out of my primary OS on my only web-connected computer. I know that it’ll be hard to repress the urge to troll when I name this OS, but I hope that some can remain civil enough to weigh in on what they think may be the cause. Ready? The OS with the problem is Windows XP. I already asked about it on another site, so I’ll just quote it here:

Yesterday, I finally got tired of my system being a bit slow and having horrible Oblivion performance compared to how it performed a few weeks ago. I decided to just do a full system cleanup. When I went to defragment my disc, it reported that there are errors on the disc. So I set it to perform a disc scan on boot. Unfortunately, the disc scan was moving really slow at stage 4, so I went to bed and let it work. When I woke up, I found my computer at the Ubuntu login screen (GRUB is set to boot automatically into Ubuntu after 10 seconds). I rebooted back into Windows and it started the scan again. I hit the reset button on the case and booted Ubuntu so I could come here and ask for help.

Any idea how to bypass the scan? I tried hitting keys including escape and enter, but no joy.

A further problem: attempts to mount my NTFS drive via the Unix terminal have failed, stating that my drive is already mounted. When I go to access it from the Disk Manager, I get the following error:

I would really like to be able to get back to my Windows desktop so I can play Battlefront II and maybe Oblivion.

Thanks in advance.

UPDATE

The problem resolved itself. Apparently a couple sectors needed to be fired and restaffed; it just wanted to make sure the new staff was doing its job.