External Drive will not Defrag - "chkdsk" issue

[Guest]

Hi Kelly (my guess you'll be answering this question)

I read your rely to Mike on 7/29/07 (post name: Computer wants to dskdsk on
boot). That was my original problem as well as each time I restarted my PC,
it would automatically chkdsk my external USB drive. I read through ALL the
info, performed the task as well as checked the registry (did not have to
change anything). The auto chkdsk is not resolved and boot up goes right to
windows.

ANOTHER PROBLEM:
Keep in mind, it's my external drive I'm working on.
I performed Disk Clean-up as usual before I run defrag. did that, no problem.
I then go to Defrag and select my external drive. I get an Error message on
the screen:
"Disk Defragmenter has detected that chkdsk is scheduled to run on the
volume external HD (F). Please run chkdsk /f"

I ran fsutil dirty query again only to get a response it's still dirty!

In CMD, I tried to run 'chkdsk /f' as suggested in the error msg, but I get
a msg:

"Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Chkdsk
may run if this volume is dismounted first. ALL OPEN HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME
WOULD THEN BE INVALID. Would you like to force a dismount on this volume?
(Y/N)"

I choose 'N' as not being sure what to do!

Bottom line - what do I need to do to get Defrag back working?

Thank you in advance in taking the time reading my problem.
Steve

 

[Guest]

I see I did a typo. correcting below in 1st paragraph in CAPS. "NOW"
Steve

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Hi Kelly (my guess you'll be answering this question)

I read your rely to Mike on 7/29/07 (post name: Computer wants to dskdsk
on
boot). That was my original problem as well as each time I restarted my
PC,
it would automatically chkdsk my external USB drive. I read through ALL
the
info, performed the task as well as checked the registry (did not have to
change anything). The auto chkdsk is not resolved and boot up goes right
to
windows.

ANOTHER PROBLEM:
Keep in mind, it's my external drive I'm working on.
I performed Disk Clean-up as usual before I run defrag. did that, no
problem.
I then go to Defrag and select my external drive. I get an Error message
on
the screen:
"Disk Defragmenter has detected that chkdsk is scheduled to run on the
volume external HD (F). Please run chkdsk /f"

I ran fsutil dirty query again only to get a response it's still dirty!

In CMD, I tried to run 'chkdsk /f' as suggested in the error msg, but I
get
a msg:

"Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Chkdsk
may run if this volume is dismounted first. ALL OPEN HANDLES TO THIS
VOLUME
WOULD THEN BE INVALID. Would you like to force a dismount on this volume?
(Y/N)"

I choose 'N' as not being sure what to do!

Press Y instead. It's quite probably referring to something like System
Restore monitoring the drive. This isn't a problem.

HTH

-pk

 

[Guest]

That did the trick.
Thank you Patrick!

Press Y instead. It's quite probably referring to something like System
Restore monitoring the drive. This isn't a problem.

HTH

-pk