CHKDSK /r won't run

[Stubby]

MVP Ronnie Vernon posted instructions for making a "Vista Recovery Disk".
This allowed me to boot up and get into a CMD box. I tried to run CHKDSK
/r to repair the bad spot but it wouldn't run. But this time, I got the
explaination that the volume is WRITE PROTECTED instead of the usual "Locked
by another process".

I tried attrib -r X:\*.* but it didn't work. Can somebody help me in
getting CHKDSK to run? It doesn't do anything if I schedule it to run at
boot time. I'm always running as an Administrator and when possible, do a
right-click and "Run as Administrator" on the CMD icon. TIA

 

[Stubby]

Hi Stubby,

See if these steps will let you run chkdsk afterwards.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/130824-chkdsk-will-not-run-startup-vista.html

That points to a list of registry cleaner products. None of them have the
ability to scan my hard disk, find the bad spot and the map it out. Plus,
only the crippled demo version is free.

 

[Stubby]

Stubby, it should take you to a tutorial to show you how to get chkdsk
running.

Remove the space after http:

http:
//www.vistax64.com/tutorials/130824-chkdsk-will-not-run-startup-vista.html

This is going astray. The real problem is that CHKDSK /r in a CMD box
won't run. That is because something has set the (whole?) disk to be
read-only as a way of locking it. That's working -- CHKDSK won't run in
repair mode.

So, noodling around in the registry is not going to fix that. I need to
find a way to start the system without the disk being locked by anything.
Maybe it's service. Diskeeper said it is not their product and I believe
them.

Note: I just spoke with the Lenovo/IBM crack support line in Atlanta.
They claim that CHKDSK is not part of their systems! I am welcome to buy a
$79 support call, however. DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT BUYING LENOVO!

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windo...62912a3c-d2cc-4ef6-9679-43709a2860351033.mspx
The disk is locked because it is the running, locked %systemdrive%, and
chkdsk cannot run on a locked drive. Boot to a Setup CD, or other way (F8?)
you have to access the "Command Line" to run chkdsk /r

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[anonymous]

I had the same problem and solved it very simply.

I wrote a batch file that does chkdsk c: /f and saved it in a temp folder.
A down and dirty way would be to just to that in notepad, save it with a
name like fix.txt then change the name to fix.bat and ignore the warning.
Then you can right-click on the batch file and run as administrator.