How to RESET "dirty bit" for NTFS volume

[Ralf Baumhoefer]

Last night the shutdown for my comp went wrong. No idea why.
After some struggle ("booting safe") i managed to make it boot again.

But EVERTY TIME it boots, my comp keeps rumning chkdsk on drives C: and I:
(both NTFS)
Running chkntfs.exe XP claims that both dirty bits for the volumes were set.

I managed to fix this for I: ,running chkdsk I: /F.
But sadly enough, this doesn't work for system volumes like C:

With fsutil.exe you're able to SET the dirty bit for a volume, but not to
RESET it !?

I could of course use "ntfschk c: /X" to stop this, but is this the only
solution ??

Is there a possibility to reset the "dirty bit" for volume c: (in the
registry??).

TIA

 

[Ralf Baumhoefer]

Sorry it's not ntfschk.exe but CHKNTFS.EXE C: /X

 

[Brian K]

Try resizing the C: partition a little smaller, create another partition
from the unallocated space, then delete this partition and reclaim the space
back into C:

Brian

 

[Steve N.]

Try resizing the C: partition a little smaller, create another partition
from the unallocated space, then delete this partition and reclaim the space
back into C:

Brian

I would NOT do this if the FS has errors, they need to be corrected
BEFORE doing any partition re-sizing operations, besides you cannot
re-size a partition natively in Windows.

Steve

 

[Steve N.]

Last night the shutdown for my comp went wrong. No idea why.
After some struggle ("booting safe") i managed to make it boot again.

But EVERTY TIME it boots, my comp keeps rumning chkdsk on drives C: and I:
(both NTFS)
Running chkntfs.exe XP claims that both dirty bits for the volumes were set.

I managed to fix this for I: ,running chkdsk I: /F.
But sadly enough, this doesn't work for system volumes like C:

With fsutil.exe you're able to SET the dirty bit for a volume, but not to
RESET it !?

I could of course use "ntfschk c: /X" to stop this, but is this the only
solution ??

Is there a possibility to reset the "dirty bit" for volume c: (in the
registry??).

TIA

The dirty bit is not set in the registry, it's part of the file system.
Why does CHKDSK /F not work on the system drive? Did you tell it to run
the check on next restart?

Steve

 

[Ralf Baumhoefer]

The dirty bit is not set in the registry, it's part of the file system.
Why does CHKDSK /F not work on the system drive? Did you tell it to run
the check on next restart?

Steve

2 Steve: Yes it runs on next start, but i doesn't correct the problem.
It always (like Norton Disc Doctor) says, that drive c: is fine, but
it NEVER resets the dirty bit flag, like it did on drive I:
No idea why that is.
I even installed a recovery console, to start chkdsk from there.
But that didn't help either.
Dirty bit is STILL set.

 

[Steve N.]

2 Steve: Yes it runs on next start, but i doesn't correct the problem.
It always (like Norton Disc Doctor) says, that drive c: is fine, but
it NEVER resets the dirty bit flag, like it did on drive I:
No idea why that is.
I even installed a recovery console, to start chkdsk from there.
But that didn't help either.
Dirty bit is STILL set.

I'm sorry, I can't find any other way to reset the dirty bit besides
CHKDSK /F (or CHKDSK /P from Recovery Console), however if it was me I'd
run CHKDSK /R to check for bad sectors just in case.

Steve

 

[Guest]

It is possible that your PC does not shutdown properly. It may crash during
the shutdown process without producing the blue screen, thus causing the
volumes to be dirty.

 

[Brian K]

I've done this several times with Partition Magic and fixed the "dirty bit".

Brian

 

[Ralf Baumhoefer]

I'm sorry, I can't find any other way to reset the dirty bit besides
CHKDSK /F (or CHKDSK /P from Recovery Console), however if it was me I'd
run CHKDSK /R to check for bad sectors just in case.

Steve

Did that (CHKDSK /R). No result. No Fix.

 

[Steve N.]

I've done this several times with Partition Magic and fixed the "dirty bit".

Brian

Ok, I'll take you word as I've never use PM.

Steve

 

[Brian K]

It's a great app and very easy to use.

Brian

Ok, I'll take you word as I've never use PM.

Steve

 

[Steve N.]

Did that (CHKDSK /R). No result. No Fix.

Dang. I wish I knew some other possible solution for you besides blowing
away the partition and starting clean.

Have you tried Brian K's suggestion about using PM?

Steve