Checking consistency of drive D (long)

[Roger]

Using Windows XP Pro SP1 with two Western Digital 120 gig
harddrives on same controller and formatted as NTFS file
systems. Drive D: used only for backups of drive C:,
problem first occurred on same day I did my last backup.

I have been using this setup sucessfully for several
months now but all of a sudden each time I bootup I get a
message that my D: drive needs to be checked for
consistency. Checkdisk runs and appears to find no errors
(it is difficult to know for sure as the results message
flashes off the screen so quickly). The computer then
continues to boot normally and everything seems fine. I
have full access to my D drive.

When I enter "Control Panel/Performance &
Maintenance/Administrative Tools/Event Viewer/System" I
find two repeated errors, together, that tell me the same
thing. Event ID is 55, NTFS is the source of the error
and the file system is corrupt and unusable, run chkdsk
on volume D:

Also under "Administrative Tools/Computer
Management/Storage/Disk Management" the file system for
drive D: is blank, when it use to be reported as NTFS.

I have since run "Drive D:/Properties/Tools/Error
Checking". Drive D: is now properly being reported as
NTFS file system and the errors are no longer being
logged under "Event Viewer", however, the consistency of
drive D: is still being checked at every bootup.

Sorry about the length of this, any help would be
appreciated.

Roger

 

[Alvin Brown]

Hello

Well if your having that much issue with the drive
just replace it

Al
t

 

[Tim Warner]

Don't you just love well thought out answers?

Roger, I am having the same problem. It started today after doing
massive updates and program loading to my system which was freshly
loaded with XPPro on a new SATA drive last week. I used the [click
here for help on event 55] in the event viewer. I followed the
directions:
To check the state of the file system

1. Click Start, click Run, and then, in the Open box, type
cmd
2. To determine whether the volume is corrupt, at the command
prompt, type
chkntfs Drive:

If the message "Drive_letter: is dirty" is displayed, the volume
is corrupt. In this case, repair the file system.
If the message "Drive_letter: is not dirty" is displayed, the
volume is not corrupt and no further action is required.

My partition was "dirty". I followed the rest of the directions to
repair but every method finds "no problem". I'm stumped also since I
am getting this on every bootup now. Both Norton and MS disk checkers
find no problem.

If you find an answer, please post it back here.

Tim

 

[Tim Warner]

Roger,
Follow-up...
I reformatted the partition and the problem went away.

Tim

Don't you just love well thought out answers?

Roger, I am having the same problem. It started today after doing
massive updates and program loading to my system which was freshly
loaded with XPPro on a new SATA drive last week. I used the [click
here for help on event 55] in the event viewer. I followed the
directions:
To check the state of the file system

1. Click Start, click Run, and then, in the Open box, type
cmd
2. To determine whether the volume is corrupt, at the command
prompt, type
chkntfs Drive:

If the message "Drive_letter: is dirty" is displayed, the volume
is corrupt. In this case, repair the file system.
If the message "Drive_letter: is not dirty" is displayed, the
volume is not corrupt and no further action is required.

My partition was "dirty". I followed the rest of the directions to
repair but every method finds "no problem". I'm stumped also since I
am getting this on every bootup now. Both Norton and MS disk checkers
find no problem.

If you find an answer, please post it back here.

Tim

Hello

Well if your having that much issue with the drive
just replace it

Al
t