Help...can't defrag drive!

[Trent Rowe]

When I go to defrag my drive it won't even anaylze it as it says it has
chkdsk scheduled for the next reboot. I tried rebooting, but chkdsk didn't
run. I went to run chkdsk on my drive again and scheduled it to run on the
next reboot, rebooted, but still it didn't run chkdsk.

Is there any way to get it to actually run chkdsk so that I can go ahead
and defrag my drive???

 

[Kenrick Fu]

Open a Command Prompt and type
fsutil dirty set <volume pathname>
E.g: fsutil dirty set c:

This will force Windows to check the hard disk drive on next reboot.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

This seems to be a very common problem recently.

Do you have ZoneAlarm 5 ??

[[Since the new version 5.0 of TrueVector accesses the disk so early in the
boot-sequence, CHKDISK cannot run with the /F option at boot-time, because
it needs to access the disk directly.]]

Uninstall ZA5 and install an earlier version.

Or get the ZA update that *fixes* this problem.

 

[Al Dykes]

When I go to defrag my drive it won't even anaylze it as it says it has
chkdsk scheduled for the next reboot. I tried rebooting, but chkdsk didn't
run. I went to run chkdsk on my drive again and scheduled it to run on the
next reboot, rebooted, but still it didn't run chkdsk.

Is there any way to get it to actually run chkdsk so that I can go ahead
and defrag my drive???

In a cmd box type CHKDSK /F
When it asks, type Y
reboot.

 

[Trent Rowe]

This was it! Thanks. Never even thought it might be Zonealarm as that
program tends to never be a problem. I updated to the new version, did it's
reboot and FINALLY did the chkdsk on drive C: that it's been supposed to do
for a few weeks now!

Thanks!

This seems to be a very common problem recently.

Do you have ZoneAlarm 5 ??

[[Since the new version 5.0 of TrueVector accesses the disk so early in the
boot-sequence, CHKDISK cannot run with the /F option at boot-time, because
it needs to access the disk directly.]]

Uninstall ZA5 and install an earlier version.

Or get the ZA update that *fixes* this problem.


--
Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes

In

When I go to defrag my drive it won't even anaylze it as it says it
has chkdsk scheduled for the next reboot. I tried rebooting, but
chkdsk didn't run. I went to run chkdsk on my drive again and
scheduled it to run on the next reboot, rebooted, but still it
didn't run chkdsk.

Is there any way to get it to actually run chkdsk so that I can go
ahead and defrag my drive???

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Trent,

Super!

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes

In

This was it! Thanks. Never even thought it might be Zonealarm as that
program tends to never be a problem. I updated to the new version,
did it's reboot and FINALLY did the chkdsk on drive C: that it's been
supposed to do for a few weeks now!

Thanks!

This seems to be a very common problem recently.

Do you have ZoneAlarm 5 ??

[[Since the new version 5.0 of TrueVector accesses the disk so early
in the boot-sequence, CHKDISK cannot run with the /F option at
boot-time, because it needs to access the disk directly.]]

Uninstall ZA5 and install an earlier version.

Or get the ZA update that *fixes* this problem.


--
Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes

In

When I go to defrag my drive it won't even anaylze it as it says it
has chkdsk scheduled for the next reboot. I tried rebooting, but
chkdsk didn't run. I went to run chkdsk on my drive again and
scheduled it to run on the next reboot, rebooted, but still it
didn't run chkdsk.

Is there any way to get it to actually run chkdsk so that I can go
ahead and defrag my drive???