CHKDSK won't run on reboot

[bugman]

I'm trying to run a chkdsk. I'm told that I can't run it now because I
can't get exclusive access to the disk. So I schedule it to run on the
next reboot. However, Windows boots right to the Windows 200 screen
with out running a chkdsk. PS, I have diskkeeper 8 installed.

any ideas?

 

[Jason Hall [MSFT]]

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From: bugman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.general
Subject: CHKDSK won't run on reboot
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 15:20:26 -0400

I'm trying to run a chkdsk. I'm told that I can't run it now because I
can't get exclusive access to the disk. So I schedule it to run on the
next reboot. However, Windows boots right to the Windows 200 screen
with out running a chkdsk. PS, I have diskkeeper 8 installed.

any ideas?

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The best way to make sure that no other application (like antivirus or disk
management utilities) can interfere with your chkdsk:
Boot to the Recovery Console and run chkdsk /r

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[Greg Stigers]

Boot to the Recovery Console, and run chkdsk from there. Why do you think
that you need to run chkdsk?

 

[bugman]

Why do you think

 

[bugman]

Boot to the Recovery Console, and run chkdsk from there. Why do you think

that you need to run chkdsk?

I have had to do a hard power off without shutting down. It's a Dell
laptop thing, sometimes when you suspend and then try to unsuspend the
LCD doesn't comeback. Since I forgot the commends to restart blindly I
had to power on and off. I usually run chkdsk after this since unclean
shutdowns might cause problems.

 

[Gert B. Frob]

I'm trying to run a chkdsk. I'm told that I can't run it now because I
can't get exclusive access to the disk. So I schedule it to run on the
next reboot. However, Windows boots right to the Windows 200 screen
with out running a chkdsk. PS, I have diskkeeper 8 installed.

any ideas?

Do you run Zone Alarm and did you recently upgrade to ver 5? That can cause
the problem you are having.

 

[JES]

Do you run Zone Alarm and did you recently upgrade to ver 5? Tha
can cause
the problem you are having. *

Thank you Gert.

I had not scheduled a chkdsk check folllowing several additions to an
subsequent resizing of my XPpro NTFS partition on my Toshiba notebook
Following the resizing, defrag wouldn't run saying that a chkdsk wa
necessary. However, no matter what I tried (resetting the ntf
parameters to default values, scheduling and rescheduling of chkds
with command line and "drive properties" settings, removing som
recently added sw, insuring that I had more than 15% free spac
available etc) nothing worked.

I had recently upgraded to ZA V. 5.0+ and, seeing your message,
uninstalled it and bingo, it did a full chkdsk on the first reboot
Zone Alarm's webpage makes no mention of this and continues to mak
available the (probable) offending version. It may have been a
interaction with other actions of mine, but the evidence seems to poin
strongly toward ZA 5 - I don't have time to exhaustively check th
alternatives.

Additionally, the exercise pointed out just how disorganized is the M
approach to fundamental functions and the documentation of their use.
must have read a hundred posts from other users having trouble wit
this aspect or that related to NTFS chkdsk problems.

You stopped the hemoraging of my time which I, if no one else, value
Thanks again


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JE