Run chkdsk on data drive

[Guest]

I have a system drive (40 GB) IDE and a data drive (80 GB) ATA100 parallel
and I want to run check disk on the data drive. Both are NTFS drives.
Anything that I try from the Start/Run command space give me the error that
the drive is an NTFS drive.

I also tried running chkdsk from the Recovery Console but it will check on
the boot drive and I don't want to make the data drive a boot drive.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Dave Patrick]

What error? What is the command you're running?

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|I have a system drive (40 GB) IDE and a data drive (80 GB) ATA100 parallel
| and I want to run check disk on the data drive. Both are NTFS drives.
| Anything that I try from the Start/Run command space give me the error
that
| the drive is an NTFS drive.
|
| I also tried running chkdsk from the Recovery Console but it will check on
| the boot drive and I don't want to make the data drive a boot drive.
|
| Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Go start/run and type in cmd then hit enter
put in the data drive letter and hit enter [like d: then enter]
NOW type chkdsk /f and hit enter

I would guess you were just doing chkdsk which is informative and not
corrective.