Chkdsk (scheduled run no /F ? )

[Guest]

Refering to this article/bulletin
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=255008 "Windows 2000 Chkdsk Reports Cleanin
Unused Security Descriptors

I have a sincle partition, and using the "Chkdsk" on tools tab properties for the C: drive, it schedules Chkdsk to run on the next boot (which it does). Don't know when it started, but it leaves a file 'bootex.log" on the root C:\ and contains output from the Chkdsk. It always finds index and descriptors like this

Cleaning up 153 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9
Cleaning up 153 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9
Cleaning up 153 unused security descriptors

Not that many (ususally 1 to 10), but always finds one (back to back runs even)

I don't have 4M number of files (another bulletin). The above bulletin suggests Chkdsk isn't being run with the /F switch
How do you get this to run?

 

[Stan Weiss]

I go to a Command Prompt (DOS window) and
enter chkdsk /f
and then y to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the
system restarts.
I then restart my system.

 

[Steve N.]

If CHKDSK was not fixing errors it would only report errors, not clean
them up.

If you are getting successive errors I would run CHKDSK /R (surface scan
for bad blocks). There is something wrong with your disk, hopefully
just a bad block or two.

Steve

 

[Guest]

I get these bizarres either way (no bad blocks). I haven't so far set the scheduler from command line as you and your kind colleague (Steve N & Stan Weiss) suggest. I assume that is the same. I will try it.

Its always a few indexes (then few ACL's) one $SII and $SIH. Apparently this problem has different sources and causes as these bulletins (previous posted) found for me shows...

http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=255008 "Windows 2000 Chkdsk Reports Cleaning Unused Security Descriptors"
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=831375 "The CHKDSK utility incorrectly identifies and deletes in-use security descriptors"

There is this one as well...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;218461 "Description of Enhanced Chkdsk, Autochk, and Chkntfs Tools in Windows 2000"




----- Steve N. wrote: -----

If CHKDSK was not fixing errors it would only report errors, not clean
them up.

If you are getting successive errors I would run CHKDSK /R (surface scan
for bad blocks). There is something wrong with your disk, hopefully
just a bad block or two.

Steve