STILL cannot run defrag (dirty bit/chkdsk problems)

[Chris/Power Salad]

I have read all over rthe Net for a fix for this problem, including
Microsoft and others, and NOTHING works or directly addresses the
problem. I see though that many people have this identical problem, so
I am wondering if it is a Windows problem.

I suddenly could not defrag my C (boot) drive, I get the message
"Defragmenter has detected that Chkdsk is scheduled to run on drive C,
please run chkdsk /f" - Then when trying to run chkdsk, I get the
message about "Drive type is NTFS...Windows cannot open drive because
it is locked - do you want to schedule chkdsk at next boot?..."

I have done everything from answering Yes, No, running chkntfs (yes,
dirty bit is set but nothing addresses what to do about this), I have
altered the registry (BootExecute value to disable autocheck at
bootup), NOTHING works, I still cannot defrag this volume, nor can I
get Windows to fix whatever error is there. At least with ScanDisk I
could somewhat see what was going on.

XPHome, SP2, NAV but no ZoneAlarm or Diskeeper.

Does *anyone* have a definitive idea or fix for this??????

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

This may take about 30 minutes or so for a 40 GB drive, but should work.

1. Boot your computer with the Windows XP CD.
2. Select the option to use the "Repair with Recovery Console"
3. Type chkdsk C: /r [Enter]
4. When it's finished, enter EXIT to restart.

This is as close to a magic bullet for drive problems as you can get. It is
actually a completely different checkdisk program than the one you schedule
or use while in windows. /r checks and repairs all problems found.