Re: XP Chkdsk Problem

["Homer L. Hazel" <hNoOmerlhANTI@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

XP will run CHKDSK to fix up an NTFS file system when you boot the system.

Normally I start it by opening a CMD window and typing CHKDSK/F.

The system will tell me that it cannot lock the drive for single use right
now and
would I like to schedule the CHKDSK at the next reboot.  I always say yes.

There is another way if you go to Accessories and System tools.  Somewhere
buried in the bowls of the menus is a disk check which will do the same
thing.

If you have not let the CHKDSK finish, I suggest you do so.

Larry Hazel

"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> You probably have some problem that XP's trying to alert you to.  I
> suspect
> it's running scandisk (*not* chkdsk, BTW) because it's finding problems,
> not
> because some setting has changed as a result of your initial run of
> scandisk.  If something's creating lost clusters on your machine, you've
> got
> to find it and figure out why.  Are these newly installed disks?  Are the
> jumper settings correct?
>
> Try turning off write caching for the affected drives.
>
> Are you shutting down via the Start menu or via the keyboard power key or
> the front panel power button?  Try shutting down via the Start menu - that
> allows more time to flush the cache although it takes longer to power down
> the machine.
>
> --
> Bobby G.
>
> "hi-ho" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:aEu6g.22754$vy1.21047@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> I had a hard disk problem on my automation / server computer and asked
> WINXP
>> to check one of the four NTFS
>> disks installed on the system - which required a reboot after which it
>> successfully fixed the disk's lost clusters.  The computer now does a
> Chkdsk
>> on the four installed drives everytime it boots.  How can I stop this ??
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
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