CHKDSK wil lnot let me defrag my C:\ drive.

[Stryker]

Every time that I try to defrag my C:\ drive I get the message chkdsk is
scheduled to run and therefore you cannot defrag. I schedule chkdsk /f to
run at reboot and have done this many times but the message is still the
same. It's getting to be rather tedious.

Any suggestions appreciated.

XP Pro+SP2

TIA

Stryker

 

[Stryker]

Problem solved thanks to the wonderful Kelly and his excellent site.

Stryker

 

[Rock]

Problem solved thanks to the wonderful Kelly and his excellent site.

Stryker

Yes _she_ is great.

 

[Stryker]

Yes _she_ is great.

I didn't know that but I do now.

Thank you "Rock", gender not known but I'm sure that I will be told.

Stryker

 

[Guest]

I have this problem can you help please.

I didn't know that but I do now.

Thank you "Rock", gender not known but I'm sure that I will be told.

Stryker

 

[Rock]

I have this problem can you help please.

:

Every time that I try to defrag my C:\ drive I get the message chkdsk is
scheduled to run and therefore you cannot defrag. I schedule chkdsk /f to
run at reboot and have done this many times but the message is still the
same. It's getting to be rather tedious.

Go to Kelly's site: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm

Click on "C" and scroll down to checkdisk.

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Restart in Safe Mode then do the defrag.

Andre

Go to Kelly's site: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm

Click on "C" and scroll down to checkdisk.

 

[SlowJet]

Defrag will not run if the drive is has it's dirty bit set.
ChkDSK is how you clean up disk error and recover bad disk sectors.

If the disk is going bad you may have a HDD driver error message in the
event log. Do what it says with out delay.

Diskkeep will check for new fragments and if the dirty bit is on will
schedule a chckdsk for next reboot. These tend to stack up over time and
need to be cleared out. Its a real mess if you have sevseral partitons.

Do this:

Get your disk diagnositc floppy ready.
Shutdown and boot up with the dagnotic disk and go through the tests. Don't
write zeros or change the partition(s). If the disk passes the tests then
take out the floppy, put the XP cd into the CD-ROM and reboot to the floppy
(set bios to boot CD first, and hit a key when you see the message on
screen)
Press F6 to do AR.
follow screens to recover console,
enter ADMIN password.
run chkdsk C: /r
while you here run it for the other partitions too.

make notes of errors.

shutdown -r (reboot)

when your windows starts up you may still have stacked up chkdsk's if
running diskkeeper - just press the key to cancel

After windows start open defrag program and run analize.


SJ

 

[Rock]

Restart in Safe Mode then do the defrag.

Andre, why are you replying to me, and not the OP?