going in circles with defragmenting and chkdsk /f

[CindyM]

I tried to defragment my computer recently. It said Disk Defragmenter
has detected that Chkdsk is scheduled to run on the volume: (C.
Please run chkdsk /f.
Did that. It said The type of file system is NTFS. Cannot lock current
drive. Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Run when reboot? I Chose Yes. I reboot. Start over. Same
thing as above…
Then I go to My Computer. Right click C, properties, tools, check now,
checked both options clicked start. It said The disk check cannot be
performed because the disk check utility needs exclusive access to
some Windows files on the disk. These files can only be accessed by
restarting Windows. Do you want to schedule the disk check to occur
the next time you restart the computer? Clicked yes. Rebooted.
The blue screen came on: Checking file system on C. The type of file
system is NTFS.
Stage 1 of 5
File verification completed
Stage 2 of 5
Index verification completed
Stage 3 of 5
Unable to read the security descriptors data stream
Does not do 4 of 5 or 5 of 5…
Jumps to Stage 1 of 3
File verification completed
Stage 2 of 3
Index verification completed
Stage 3 of 3
Unable to read the security descriptors data stream
The screen went black, it started Windows. I tried to defragment again
and was back at the horrible beginning. I am going in circles. I am
not computer savvy. How do I fix this? I have defragmented before with
no problem.

Thank you for your help,
CindyM

 

[larry]

Try this. When you reboot and when chkdsk starts , hit
the space key that will cancel the check disk. Then when
you reboot run your de-frag.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Cindy

How old is the hard disk? Is it still under warranty? Back up all your
important data files to CD?


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[Rock]

I tried to defragment my computer recently. It said Disk Defragmenter
has detected that Chkdsk is scheduled to run on the volume: (C.
Please run chkdsk /f.
Did that. It said The type of file system is NTFS. Cannot lock current
drive. Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Run when reboot? I Chose Yes. I reboot. Start over. Same
thing as above…
Then I go to My Computer. Right click C, properties, tools, check now,
checked both options clicked start. It said The disk check cannot be
performed because the disk check utility needs exclusive access to
some Windows files on the disk. These files can only be accessed by
restarting Windows. Do you want to schedule the disk check to occur
the next time you restart the computer? Clicked yes. Rebooted.
The blue screen came on: Checking file system on C. The type of file
system is NTFS.
Stage 1 of 5
File verification completed
Stage 2 of 5
Index verification completed
Stage 3 of 5
Unable to read the security descriptors data stream
Does not do 4 of 5 or 5 of 5…
Jumps to Stage 1 of 3
File verification completed
Stage 2 of 3
Index verification completed
Stage 3 of 3
Unable to read the security descriptors data stream
The screen went black, it started Windows. I tried to defragment again
and was back at the horrible beginning. I am going in circles. I am
not computer savvy. How do I fix this? I have defragmented before with
no problem.

Thank you for your help,
CindyM

Backp now if you can and dowload a diagnostic utility from the hard
drive manufacturer's web site. This will create a bootable floppy. Run
the diagnostics from there.

 

[JimWae±]

So chkdsk does not run on reboot?
Did you have an old version of ZoneAlarm installed?

 

[Greg Hayes/Raxco Software]

The fact that CHKDSK isn't able to completely run on the drive is telling.

If you run hardware diags on the drive, does it pass?

- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows File System

Want to email me? Delete ntloader.