Not that I get intenesely frustrated when people do this or anything, but if you've found and refer to something on the microsoft site, it is helpful if you link to it, rather than leaving people to wade through technet.
I think I found something similar to what your talking about
:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp
Which leads us to:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;307545
And if you are going to do this, print off the instructions and follow them to the letter.
However, that seems like overkill to me. Try running chkdsk manual with the /R option. AS in - start->run->cmd
chkdsk /R
And then you will probably have to reset your computer. Might just work.