odd chkdsk error

[Tim.T]

I have 5 partitions. The C drive is FAT32, the rest are NTFS. I ran chkdsk
on
D drive and it gave the following readout:

The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is PROGRAMS.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
Cleaning up instance tags for file 450.
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
Detected minor inconsistencies on the drive. This is not a corruption.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Cleaning up 9 unused index entries from index $SII of file 9.
Cleaning up 9 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 9.
Cleaning up 9 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
Usn Journal verification completed.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.

8233280 KB total disk space.
2859196 KB in 13428 files.
4052 KB in 761 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
73092 KB in use by the system.
46560 KB occupied by the log file.
5296940 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
2058320 total allocation units on disk.
1324235 allocation units available on disk.

I rebooted as directed, and when chkdsk ran again, I discovered that it was
checking
C drive NOT D drive, where it found the problem. I have run chkdsk on D
drive
numerous times using the /f switch, and on each occasion it checks C drive
instead of D drive,
on bootup. Incidentally, it finds no problems on C drive.

Whats going on?? I can't get it to fix this "problem with the file system"
it keeps detecting on D drive!
Apart from this I have no hard drive problems....does this indicate one?

Tim

 

[Steve Nielsen]

I suspect you have a syntax problem with the command.

The syntax is:
CHKDSK [volume[[path]filename]]] [/F] [/V] [/R] [/X] [/I] [/C] [/L[:size]]

For what you want to do it should be:
CHKDSK D: /F

If you typed in:
CHKDSK /F D:

It will default to testing the current drive (presumably C and ignore
the D: at the end as an invalid switch. That could account for getting
the check of C: instead of D:

I don't think the errors indicate a serious disk problem, just some
things needing cleaned up a bit.

Steve