diskeeper -how to cancel an action!!??

[neutrino]

I set Diskeeper to defrag dice "C", and also decided stupidly to set
CHKDSK as well.... cept the flamin CHKDSK did not Auto run - and now
Diskeeper will not defrag "C" drive, either at boot-up or while the
system is active - says it detects a CHKDSK is set to run at next boot
and canot defrag till that is done!
The only setting I can find to cancel the action is in the "Change your
settings: - one of which is "cancel defrag" - trouble is - this does
not seem to cancel the ChkDsk!!!
good grief!! is there any way around it??? cos I'll be unable to
defrag C with Diskeeper otherwise!
many thanks if you can help.

 

[neutrino]

Me again~
a few additional notes since posting...
I'v tried uninstalling diskeeper - reinstalling - no difference to the
problem!
I did access My Computer - right clicked C drive and using the Tools -
I ran a diskcheck, then scheduled a boot-time CHKDSK, it did run -
but Diskeeper STILL won;t scan or defrag C drive - still comes up
saying a CHKDSK is set to run and it can;t defrag/scan the drive untill
that completes!
Now.. I looked through the registry for any mention of CHKDSK, and yep
- I found mentionm of it withing the Diskeeper settings... what I see
under usersettings is...
(name)- BootTimeChkdsk (type)- REG-SZ ( whatever that is???)
and there are many other items in here.. but I see only this one
reference to Chkdsk.. but what to do? what to change?
hope someone knows somethign about all this!
"C" will never get a defrag unless i can clear this....
thanks.

 

[Jonny]

I set Diskeeper to defrag dice "C", and also decided stupidly to set
CHKDSK as well.... cept the flamin CHKDSK did not Auto run - and now
Diskeeper will not defrag "C" drive, either at boot-up or while the
system is active - says it detects a CHKDSK is set to run at next boot
and canot defrag till that is done!
The only setting I can find to cancel the action is in the "Change your
settings: - one of which is "cancel defrag" - trouble is - this does
not seem to cancel the ChkDsk!!!
good grief!! is there any way around it??? cos I'll be unable to
defrag C with Diskeeper otherwise!
many thanks if you can help.

Since diskeeper is such a resource hog when it actually runs, I chose to run
diskeeper manually only. The smartschedule in the diskeeper program is what
sets the auto defrag scheduling.

 

[Snarky Parker]

Open a command prompt window and execute these commands:

To view all parameter switches for this utility. (FYI only)
chkntfs /?

To restore the system to normal behavior:
chkntfs /d

To check the status of the drive:
chkntfs c:

If it reports a DIRTY drive, do this to schedule a manual chkdsk at the next
startup:
chkntfs /c c:

Then close this window, restart the system and then try to defrag after restart.

If it reports the drive NOT dirty simply close the window and try to defrag
again.


| Me again~
| a few additional notes since posting...
| I'v tried uninstalling diskeeper - reinstalling - no difference to the
| problem!
| I did access My Computer - right clicked C drive and using the Tools -
| I ran a diskcheck, then scheduled a boot-time CHKDSK, it did run -
| but Diskeeper STILL won;t scan or defrag C drive - still comes up
| saying a CHKDSK is set to run and it can;t defrag/scan the drive untill
| that completes!
| Now.. I looked through the registry for any mention of CHKDSK, and yep
| - I found mentionm of it withing the Diskeeper settings... what I see
| under usersettings is...
| (name)- BootTimeChkdsk (type)- REG-SZ ( whatever that is???)
| and there are many other items in here.. but I see only this one
| reference to Chkdsk.. but what to do? what to change?
| hope someone knows somethign about all this!
| "C" will never get a defrag unless i can clear this....
| thanks.
|

 

[neutrino]

Open a command prompt window and execute these commands:

To view all parameter switches for this utility. (FYI only)
chkntfs /?

Many thanks for those commands, I'll save them for reference & whenever
I feel the need to check things over - excellent~ thanks.
As for the getting diskeeper back to normal~ I did have one last item
up my sleeve, but it's not any help for anyone else who might come
across something similar, I have Norton Ghost on the system, and had
taken a backup of "C" only 3 weeks ago... prior to this problem coming
up.. I restored - and as you'd expect - it was all back to normal, and
I only had two programs to re-install since that backup, did that,
defraged etc etc, and took a new backup. but if I did not have
ghost... it's saved me often in the past, and is one program I'd not
be without.