chkdsk

[Guest]

Hi anyone,
when I try to defragment my laptop a message saying that I have to run
chkdsk appears. However I do not know how to run the chkdsk. It is a simple
thing, I know, but I can't find it.

 

[RonK]

Click on Start, Run and type chkdsk then click OK

 

[Peter Wilkins]

Hi anyone,
when I try to defragment my laptop a message saying that I have to run
chkdsk appears. However I do not know how to run the chkdsk. It is a simple
thing, I know, but I can't find it.

There are quite a few ways to get there - one is:
Rightclick on the drive icon of the drive you want to check in my
computer or Windows Explorer, select properties, select the tools tab,
select the error checking, "check now" box.

It will probably want to reboot to do the check if it's your OS drive.

Or just do a start/Run/chkdsk and it will come up in a DOS window.

 

[Guest]

Click start, run, type cmd to open the dos box and at the prompt type in
chkdsk, it (the dos box) might just stay open long enough to read.. If you
need to use the /f switch to fix errors on the disk, you will most likely
need to reboot for this to take place..
Also see chkdsk /? for help..
j;-j

 

[de Graff]

There is a flag which is cleared when you shut down properly. If you crash
or just power off, the flag (one per partition) is left in the "dirty"
state. Let's assme you have two partitions. C is your system partition (your
pagefile is here as well). D is your data partition. You can open a dos
session and run chkdsk on D without shutting down. To do this type

chkdsk d: /f

d: indicates your d drive. /f says to fix any errors found. You will
probably be asked if you want to unmount the partition. Say yes. It will be
remounted when the chkdsk finishes.

You can't do a chdsk on your c system partition because you can't unmount it
and keep running. In this case you will be told that chkdsk will be run on
the next reboot. Just go with this and do a restart. The chkdsk will run and
fix any errors, then clear the dirty flag.