Running Chkdsk

[Lori Ann Kuiper]

When I run chkdsk I do it from within windows by using My Computer and then
clicking properties on the drive I want to check, check both boxes and then
it tells me that it will be run the next time I restart.

Is there a better way to do this? Should it be run in safe mode? I always
receive quite a few errors that say they are indexing errors--sometimes 30
or more. Why would that be?

 

[Guest]

The only way chkdsk with the options can be run is to reboot and run before
Windows loads. It cannot run in Safe Mode. You can run chkdsk without any
parameters inside Windows and read the results as they come up on the screen,
but no corrections will be made. Go to Run, type chkdsk and it will run in
Read Only mode.

 

[SlowJet]

You are doing the chkdsk the correct way.
Running it from the Recovery Console is basically the same, except you can
do other things while in RC as well.
If you are getting errors regularly it means you disk is going bad.

Download and run from a floppy boot the DISK MFG's diagnoositc tools.(or go
online and use the ONLINE tools)
If your disk is bad, backup ASAP and make plans to replace it.
What ever you do, don't defrag the disk. You will only move other files to
the bad areas. Check event logg for DISK error or driver messages.

SJ

 

[Rock]

When I run chkdsk I do it from within windows by using My Computer and then
clicking properties on the drive I want to check, check both boxes and then
it tells me that it will be run the next time I restart.

Is there a better way to do this? Should it be run in safe mode? I always
receive quite a few errors that say they are indexing errors--sometimes 30
or more. Why would that be?

What exactly are the errors? Some of them are routine and not an issue.
If it's unused index entries and/or unused security descriptors those
are not a problem.

 

[Alex Nichol]

When I run chkdsk I do it from within windows by using My Computer and then
clicking properties on the drive I want to check, check both boxes and then
it tells me that it will be run the next time I restart.

Is there a better way to do this? Should it be run in safe mode?

Safe mode would again ask to do it at boot. that is the only way it can
check C: - it must not have *anything* running on the disk concerned.

I always
receive quite a few errors that say they are indexing errors--sometimes 30
or more. Why would that be?

They may be essentially spurious; they may arise if things have not shut
down cleanly