Checkdisk keeps running...

[mrkeysfla]

On my Windows XP Prof machine, everytime I turn it on or reboot, checkdisk
will run on the "D" partition. It never finds any errors, but it always
runs. A check of the event viewer/system log shows:
"The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run
the chkdsk utility on the volume D:.

I can use the programs stored on my D partition without problem. The D
partition exists on a disk with several other partitions, none of which are
exhibiting any problems.

Any ideas?

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "mrkeysfla" <[email protected]>

| On my Windows XP Prof machine, everytime I turn it on or reboot, checkdisk
| will run on the "D" partition. It never finds any errors, but it always
| runs. A check of the event viewer/system log shows:
| "The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run
| the chkdsk utility on the volume D:.
|
| I can use the programs stored on my D partition without problem. The D
| partition exists on a disk with several other partitions, none of which are
| exhibiting any problems.
|
| Any ideas?
|

Go to the hard disk manufacturer's web site and download their diagnostic software
respective to your hard disk. After the test, you will know if the hard disk is bad or
not..

Quantum/Maxtor - PowerMax
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm

Western Digital - Data LifeGuard Tools (DLGDiag)
http://support.wdc.com/download/

Hitachi/IBM - Drive Fitness Test (DFT)
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

Seagate - SeaTools
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/

Fujitsu - Diagnostic Tool
http://www.fcpa.com/download/hard-drives/

Samsung - Disk manager
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm

 

[Patrick Keenan]

On my Windows XP Prof machine, everytime I turn it on or reboot, checkdisk
will run on the "D" partition. It never finds any errors, but it always
runs. A check of the event viewer/system log shows:
"The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run
the chkdsk utility on the volume D:.

I can use the programs stored on my D partition without problem. The D
partition exists on a disk with several other partitions, none of which
are exhibiting any problems.

Any ideas?

I think an appropriate idea might be to seriously consider replacing that
drive, since it appears to be regularly corrupting. Drives are so
inexpensive these days, and so easy to replace, it's hardly worth the
aggravation and time of letting a drive fail and losing data.

One thing, though; you use the word 'partition'. Do you have just one
drive, and this is a 2nd partition on that drive?

Hard drive manufacturers make disk cloning utilities. You can also get a
trial version of Acronis True Image, which will work for 15 days. This
will clone the entire disk while Windows is running in a remarkably short
period of time, and you will have a bootable drive. You'll just have to
swap jumpers around and will be done inside an hour.

HTH
-pk

 

[mrkeysfla]

That sounds like a reasonable idea. Thanks for the suggestion.