XP filesystem corrupt - force chkdsk?

From: David Barge (dabblah@yahoo.com)
Date: 03/17/03 

From: "David Barge" <dabblah@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 11:47:44 -0800

Hello,

I am not sure why (but I have a suspicion enabling suspend
mode on it is the culperate), but my personal system
crashed yesterday. At this point when I attempt to boot
it, the machine bluescreens shortly after loading all
drivers and shifting to the XP (Professional version, by
the way...) startup screen. It tells me ntfs.sys is
corrupt (joy) with a STOP 0x00000024 error, and I should
disable any backup software or antivirus software and run
chkdsk. Unfortunately, that is all it does, and nothing
more. I have been searching in vain for a way to force it
to run chkdsk when I can not get the blasted thing to boot
any further than that. My most creative attempt so far has
been to install XP on a seperate hard drive (without the
original offender being connected to the system at all)
and install the recovery console. Unfortunately, if I
attempt to boot the new installation of XP (either
normally, or into the recovery console) it gives up the
ghost whenever it tries to access the second hard drive
(now configured as a slave). This also happens if I
attempt to repair the installation using the install CD,
or launch the recovery console from the install CD.
Basically right after I hit the "R" key, it dies reporting
the same ntfs.sys error. If I attempt a new install, it
dies in a slightly different manner, but will not install
on the drive as it is currently configured. Of course,
since I can not boot into the blasted thing I can not get
my product id so i have no way of submitting this to no-
charge support either (not being one to have written it
down, something which I will change in the future...). One
other thing, I ran the low level hardware diagnostics
provided by the HD manufacturer and they reported no error.

The one fortunate thing of all this is I do have a fresh
backup. The backup software was not installed on this
machine, however, but run via a network share. Though it
was one of the possible culperates mentioned by the stop
error, it does not make sense to me that it could cause
this.

So to recap, XP Professional died. Reports STOP 0x00000024
ntfs.sys corruption on startup. Can not boot into XP even
on a seperate hard drive in the system, or into the
recovery console. Is there a way given all that, to force
chkdsk, or do I simply have to low level format it and
start over? Thanks to anyone with info.