Help Chkdsk gone mad

[lforbes]

Hi All,

I am running Windows 2003 Server. I installed Windows Updates and
restarted.

Chkdsk immediately started running. That was fine except it started
saying ’Replacing invalid security id with default security id for
file x" for all my files. From reading the MS website this is
replacing all my Security. I have 1200 Users each with their own home
directory security. I have no idea what is going wrong and why it is
doing that.

I just hard restarted it. The drive appears to be fine with no
permissions changed but I am still quite curious why it keeps wanting
to run CHKDSK and replace the security Id.

Any ideas?

Lara

 

[ianw1974]

Hi All,

I am running Windows 2003 Server. I installed Windows Updates
and restarted.

Chkdsk immediately started running. That was fine except it
started saying 'Replacing invalid security id with default
security id for file x" for all my files. From reading the MS
website this is replacing all my Security. I have 1200 Users
each with their own home directory security. I have no idea
what is going wrong and why it is doing that.

I just hard restarted it. The drive appears to be fine with no
permissions changed but I am still quite curious why it keeps
wanting to run CHKDSK and replace the security Id.

Any ideas?

Lara

Do you have any event log errors being logged? Does it repeatedly do
it every single time you restart the server?

 

[lforbes]

Do you have any event log errors being logged? Does it
repeatedly do it every single time you restart the server?

Hi,

No there are no event log errors. The drives are fine. What happened I
think is I have a Journalism folder with about 20GB of HUGH picture
files. The security on the folder got messed up somehow so Windows
Chkdsk was having a fit. I reset security manually. Now I will try
restarting the server again.

Cheers,

Lara