Can no longer run check disk

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In the past, when I scheduled a check disk under properties for my harddrive, check disk would visibily run (against a black screen) after booting my system. Now, after scheduling check disk, when I reboot, the operating system boots normally, as if I never scheduled a check disk. I don't know how important it is to run check disk, but I'm fustrated that the program is not running when I reboot (warm or cold). I'm running Windows 2000 with service pack 4. Additional services that run at startup, (which I sometimes disable or kill with the program Process Explorer are Itouch! by Logitech, AVG anti-virus (free edition), and McAfee Security Center running only the firewall. The only other programs running are synchronization and a program for my creative sound card, which has always run on my computer. Any help with this or brainstorming a possible cultprit would be greatly appreciated. I will check back here once a day.
 
In the past, when I scheduled a check disk under properties for my harddrive, check disk would visibily run (against a black screen) after booting my system. Now, after scheduling check disk, when I reboot, the operating system boots normally, as if I never scheduled a check disk. I don't know how important it is to run check disk, but I'm fustrated that the program is not running when I reboot (warm or cold). I'm running Windows 2000 with service pack 4. Additional services that run at startup, (which I sometimes disable or kill with the program Process Explorer are Itouch! by Logitech, AVG anti-virus (free edition), and McAfee Security Center running only the firewall. The only other programs running are synchronization and a program for my creative sound card, which has always run on my computer. Any help with this or brainstorming a possible cultprit would be greatly appreciated. I will check back here once a day.
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Make sure that when you schedule CHKDSK, it is updating the registry.

See tip 8 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com

If you schedule
chkdsk c: /f /r

then BootExecute value: autocheck autochk /r \??\C:



Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
 
Upon booting the computer, check disk is now telling me it can not access the volume. Does anyone know why chkdsk would not be unable to access the volume? What this might mean? Thanks, in advance, for any help. I'd like to resolve this without reinstalling everthing.
 
This may be normal. Is this a manual CHKDSK after Windows has completely
loaded, or an automatic check before Windows finishes loading? Are you
getting something like this?
C:\WINNT\system32>chkdsk c: /f
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)

There is a helpful article "Description of Enhanced Chkdsk, Autochk, and
Chkntfs Tools in Windows 2000" at
<http://support.microsoft.com/?id=218461>
 
----- Greg Stigers wrote: ----

This may be normal. Is this a manual CHKDSK after Windows has completel
loaded, or an automatic check before Windows finishes loading? Are yo
getting something like this
C:\WINNT\system32>chkdsk c: /
The type of the file system is NTFS
Cannot lock current drive

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by anothe
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to b
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N

There is a helpful article "Description of Enhanced Chkdsk, Autochk, an
Chkntfs Tools in Windows 2000" a
<http://support.microsoft.com/?id=218461
--
Greg Stigers, MCS
this space for ren


No, I'm not running chkdsk from the command prompt. The message I refered to was displayed during boot up. It says chkdsk cannot not access the volume. It's the "cannot access volume" that's hard to understand, unless my AVG anti-virus, or McAfee (registry keys or services) is preventing the chkdsk from accessing the volume on my harddrive even when restarting the computer.
 
Please provide the exact error message you see.

Also, try booting to the Recovery Console, and running chkdsk from its
command prompt. If that will not work, it's time to worry about hardware or
non-standard setups, like disk management software that loads on boot up.
 
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