Defragment and chkdsk

[Kris Gillispie]

When I try and defrag my hard drive I get a message that
says something to the effect that chkdsk /f has been
scheduled to run on start-up. Defrag then does not
happen. I reboot the computer and chkdsk runs but only
gets through the first of the 3 phases of checking before
it throws a "blue screen of death". The screen flashes so
quickly that I cannot tell what the error was. Needless
to say, chkdsk /f tries to run each time I reboot the
computer and always fails and I cannot defrag my hard
drive. I have the latest SP. I did find a fix, I think,
from Microsoft but it will not run because of the SP that
I am on. Is there something out there that will fix this
that does not require me to unintall all the SPs and
reinstall them?

Thanks for any assistance you can give me.
Kris.

 

[Scott M.]

Can you boot up without doing the chkdsk? If so, boot up and then run
ScanDisk (right click on a drive letter and you'll see the option). See if
that can get through all right and then try a reboot.