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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Performance and Maintainance / March 2006Problem running Disk Check (chkdsk)
In trying to defrag my hard drive, got a message that said I needed to run check disk first. I've discovered the disk is marked as dirty. So I attempt to run chkdsk, get a message says 'cannot lock current drive-cannot run because volume is in use.....want to schedule to check next restart?'...I say Yes....reboot, but chkdsk does not run....system starts as normal. Still cannot defrag because it says chkdsk is scheduled to run.....I've tried everything I can find to get it to run...no luck. I read one of Wes Vogel's threads on the subject,(3/16/06) and followed his advice: My computer/right click on drive/properties/tools/error checking/check now/check both boxes. Then reboot. Upon reboot, I get a message that says: Cannot open volume for direct access...check complete. Then system boots up. What do I do now? System is running ok in general, but hangs occassionally, and boots up slowly. Anti-virus and anti-spy is up to date and checked regularly. Simply go to start,run,type:cmd In cmd type:CHKNTFS /? I believe its CHKNTFS /C C: AS the right syntex,either way,under certain situations the normal CHKDSK C: /F Refuses to run,one must then run as CHKNTFS > In trying to defrag my hard drive, got a message that said I needed to run > check disk first. I've discovered the disk is marked as dirty. So I attempt [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > System is running ok in general, but hangs occassionally, and boots up > slowly. Anti-virus and anti-spy is up to date and checked regularly. Thanks for the help Andrew, hope you have some patience, and some more answers. I ran CHKNTFS /?, which defines the command and gives the options. So I ran CHKNTFS /C C: (as I understand the options), then rebooted, but still got no chkdsk, just a normal boot. I even tried CHKNTFS C: /C ---with no luck. I ran CHKNTFS C: and the reply was: "Type of file is NTFS. C: is dirty. You may use the /C option to schedule chkdsk for this drive." So it knows what I want, just won't do it. If it helps, or matters, I'm running XP Home SP 2. Do I understand the command correctly? Should there be something else following the C: I appreciate your help... Lynn > Simply go to start,run,type:cmd In cmd type:CHKNTFS /? > I believe its CHKNTFS /C C: AS the right syntex,either way,under certain [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > System is running ok in general, but hangs occassionally, and boots up > > slowly. Anti-virus and anti-spy is up to date and checked regularly. | Thanks for the help Andrew, hope you have some patience, and some | more answers. I ran CHKNTFS /?, which defines the command and gives [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] ||| up slowly. Anti-virus and anti-spy is up to date and checked ||| regularly. I had this same message regarding no defrag until...on my second drive. I could get a chkdsk to proceed at boot but the message kept repeating. I downloaded from http://www.hdtune.com/ the utility for the purpose of scanning the drive to see if there were bad blocks causing this. Bad blocks showed up on the scan. The computer was taking a long time to shut down as well.The second hard drive (an NTFS format)which was only for data was replaced a week ago I ended up reinstalling windows on the new harddrive which was partitioned. Windows is on a Fat32 partition and the data is on the second partition with NTFS Check your event manager log to see if there is a report regarding bad blocks on the hard drive. Rose Lynn, Sounds like something is "locking" the drive and preventing CHKDSK from running - usual culprits can be anti-virus or anti-spyware. I'd suggest that you boot into the XP Recovery Console and run CHKDSK from there. This way, nothing should be accessing the drive and it should work. Let us know the result. - Greg/Raxco Software Microsoft MVP - Windows File System Want to email me? Delete ntloader. > Thanks for the help Andrew, hope you have some patience, and some more > answers. [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] >> > System is running ok in general, but hangs occassionally, and boots up >> > slowly. Anti-virus and anti-spy is up to date and checked regularly. Greg, Thanks for the help. I used my OS CD to boot into Recovery Console, ran CHKDSK C: /R...successfully. It did a complete check, and said it found and fixed one or more errors on the volume. After booting up, I ran the fsutil dirty query and it said Vol C was no longer dirty. Subsequently was able to perform a normal HD defrag. My system is running much better now...boot and shut down times back to where they should be. Thanks so much for your patience and dogged determination. Lynn > Lynn, > [quoted text clipped - 52 lines] > >> > System is running ok in general, but hangs occassionally, and boots up > >> > slowly. Anti-virus and anti-spy is up to date and checked regularly. |
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