"Cannot Open Volume for Direct Access"

[Spencer]

When I open CheckDisk and set it to Automatically fix file system errors and
Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors, it tries to run at the next
startup. I get the message "Cannot Open Volume for Direct Access" at
startup. KB823439, dated 8/14/2003, says "Microsoft is researching this
problem and will post more information in this article when the information
becomes available."

Can anyone point me to more useful information or advise me what I should
do?

Thanks.

Spencer
Please reply only to group.

 

[R. McCarty]

Do you have Zone Alarm installed on your PC ?
If so it may be the cause of this, Check for a recent Zone
Alarm update for their problematic Version 5.0

 

[Kenrick Fu]

This issue has been resolved in Windows XP Service Pack 2.

 

[Trev]

When I open CheckDisk and set it to Automatically fix file system errors and
Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors, it tries to run at the next
startup. I get the message "Cannot Open Volume for Direct Access" at
startup. KB823439, dated 8/14/2003, says "Microsoft is researching this
problem and will post more information in this article when the information
becomes available."

Can anyone point me to more useful information or advise me what I should
do?

Thanks.

Spencer
Please reply only to group.

Had that problem last week seams both Diskeeper and ms Chkdsk where
fighting over who should run in my case. Nothing I could do about it
resigned to a fresh install. After numerous attempts at reboots over a few
days I closed the machine down for a night. Next day on boot it ran Twice
and is now ok.

 

[Spencer]

Follow up:

Not loading ZoneAlarm Pro did not help. Turning computer off briefly did
not help.

I turned the computer off about 2AM this morning. When I turned it on about
5AM, CheckDisk ran as it should! Same experience Tev reported!

Can CheckDisk be safely run if you are willing to wait a day?

Spencer

 

[Trev]

Follow up:

Not loading ZoneAlarm Pro did not help. Turning computer off briefly did
not help.

I turned the computer off about 2AM this morning. When I turned it on about
5AM, CheckDisk ran as it should! Same experience Tev reported!

Can CheckDisk be safely run if you are willing to wait a day?

I have not tried it again Yet but it defiantly looks as if it don't like
restarts.

 

[Alex Nichol]

When I open CheckDisk and set it to Automatically fix file system errors and
Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors, it tries to run at the next
startup. I get the message "Cannot Open Volume for Direct Access" at
startup. KB823439, dated 8/14/2003, says "Microsoft is researching this
problem and will post more information in this article when the information
becomes available."

Can anyone point me to more useful information or advise me what I should
do?

This is associated with a problem in Zone Alarm version 5. There is a
new version of this available for download (5.059 build 043) which is
said to fix the matter, and is in any case going to clear other matters.
Or go back to version 4

 

[Guest]

i don't know how to get check disk to run after restarting, but i do know how to stop it from trying to everytime you turn your computer on. you go to the command prompt and type in chkdsk.exe /f and once that comes up it'll say that it can't lock the volume and would you like to schedule a check disk once you restart? put in the letter y and it'll say that it'll run once your computer is restarted. however, when i did that it stopped it from scanning and my computer started up normally. i have no clue why this works, but it did for me. i just thought i'd pass it along. in order to run a scandisk that won't make your PC restart, you check off only the second box in My Computer that says scan for and repair bad sectors and it won't ask to restart. it scans everything except for free space.