Windows Start Up Message

[Guest]

I tried to run the detect and repair disk errors and when Windows shut down
and restarted, I now get this message

Checking file system on C The type of file system is NTFS
Cannot open volume for direct access
Windows has finished checking the disk

I've shut down and restarted up Windows about 10 times and this message
continues to show on start up before Windows completely opens. It doesn't
appear to be causing any problems, but I would like to know what I can do so
this message doesn't continue to appear. Thanks

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Apparently chkdsk is sceduled to run and you have a program that will not
allow it to open volume for direct access.

Cannot lock volume for direct access
Cannot open volume for direct access

A program called Hitman Pro can cause the problem.

A really old version of ZoneAlarm (a version from 2004) can cause the
problem.

Spyware Doctor can also cause the problem.

The /x switch doesn't work if Spyware Doctor is installed. Spyware Doctor
needs to be uninstalled or you can do this...

Quoted from *PCTools*, *Spyware* *Doctor*...
1. Exit from Spyware Doctor (to exit from Spyware
Doctor please right click on the Spyware Doctor icon in
the notification area (next to the clock on the Windows
taskbar) and select Exit from the menu that appears)

2. Delete the file
ikhlayer.sys from %windir%\system32\drivers\
or
from c:\windows\system32\drivers\

3. Restart Spyware Doctor

Chkdsk, defrag and error-checking should now work.
-----

[[There is currently no fix for this problem.]]
[[NOTE: You may have success if you schedule Chkdsk to run at startup and
use the /X switch, which will force a dismount. ]]
from...
JSI Tip 7079. You receive 'Cannot open volume for direct access' when Chkdsk
runs during Windows XP startup
http://www.jsifaq.com/subO/tip7000/rh7079.htm

To run chkdsk from a command prompt.

Start | Run | Type: cmd | Click OK |
In the command prompt, type:

chkdsk C: /x

Hit your Enter key.

The following error message appears:
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Would you
like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system
restarts? (Y/N)

Type Y, hit Enter and close the command prompt.

Reboot.

The /x switch: Use with NTFS only. Forces the volume to dismount first, if
necessary. All open handles to the drive are invalidated. /x also includes
the functionality of /f. The /F switch fixes errors on the disk.

Unable to run CHKDSK
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555484

Check Disk runs on every boot.

Open a command prompt...
Start | Run | Type: cmd | Click OK |
Type or paste the following line:

chkntfs /d

Hit the Enter key.

The /d switch restores the machine to the default behavior; all drives are
checked at boot time and chkdsk is run on those that are dirty.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

 

[Guest]

Wes,

Thank you very much for your prompt and informative reply. Yes, I have
Spyware Doctor installed and deleted the ikhlayer.sys file per your
suggestion. I restarted my computer and chkdsk was able to complete a check.
I shut down Windows and restarted again and the message that I previously
got no longer appeared. All appears well and back to normal.

I do have another question though. What impact will I have on Spyware
Doctor or any other functions will I experience by deleting the ikhlayer.sys
file? If I uninstall Spyware Doctor and reinstall it again will I have to
once again delete the ikhlayer.sys file to be able to fun disk check?

Once again thank you for solving this irritating problem.

Brad

Apparently chkdsk is sceduled to run and you have a program that will not
allow it to open volume for direct access.

Cannot lock volume for direct access
Cannot open volume for direct access

A program called Hitman Pro can cause the problem.

A really old version of ZoneAlarm (a version from 2004) can cause the
problem.

Spyware Doctor can also cause the problem.

The /x switch doesn't work if Spyware Doctor is installed. Spyware Doctor
needs to be uninstalled or you can do this...

Quoted from *PCTools*, *Spyware* *Doctor*...
1. Exit from Spyware Doctor (to exit from Spyware
Doctor please right click on the Spyware Doctor icon in
the notification area (next to the clock on the Windows
taskbar) and select Exit from the menu that appears)

2. Delete the file
ikhlayer.sys from %windir%\system32\drivers\
or
from c:\windows\system32\drivers\

3. Restart Spyware Doctor

Chkdsk, defrag and error-checking should now work.
-----

[[There is currently no fix for this problem.]]
[[NOTE: You may have success if you schedule Chkdsk to run at startup and
use the /X switch, which will force a dismount. ]]
from...
JSI Tip 7079. You receive 'Cannot open volume for direct access' when Chkdsk
runs during Windows XP startup
http://www.jsifaq.com/subO/tip7000/rh7079.htm

To run chkdsk from a command prompt.

Start | Run | Type: cmd | Click OK |
In the command prompt, type:

chkdsk C: /x

Hit your Enter key.

The following error message appears:
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Would you
like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system
restarts? (Y/N)

Type Y, hit Enter and close the command prompt.

Reboot.

The /x switch: Use with NTFS only. Forces the volume to dismount first, if
necessary. All open handles to the drive are invalidated. /x also includes
the functionality of /f. The /F switch fixes errors on the disk.

Unable to run CHKDSK
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555484

Check Disk runs on every boot.

Open a command prompt...
Start | Run | Type: cmd | Click OK |
Type or paste the following line:

chkntfs /d

Hit the Enter key.

The /d switch restores the machine to the default behavior; all drives are
checked at boot time and chkdsk is run on those that are dirty.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

I tried to run the detect and repair disk errors and when Windows shut
down and restarted, I now get this message

Checking file system on C The type of file system is NTFS
Cannot open volume for direct access
Windows has finished checking the disk

I've shut down and restarted up Windows about 10 times and this message
continues to show on start up before Windows completely opens. It doesn't
appear to be causing any problems, but I would like to know what I can do
so this message doesn't continue to appear. Thanks

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Hi Brad,

I have never used Spyware Doctor. I was helping a gal, about mid February
of this year, with a chkdsk problem and she discovered that it was Spyware
Doctor causing the chkdsk problem. She also posted the PCTools, Spyware
Doctor fix on Feb 12 2006. PCTools has been aware of this problem since
around that time and has been working on the issue. As far as I know they
may have an update out by now. It took ZoneLabs a while in 2004 to come up
with a fix for their problem with chkdsk.

To answer your question, if Spyware Doctor has not been updated and you
uninstall it, you would need to delete ikhlayer.sys again. Of course you
could confirm this yourself by uninstalling and installing Spyware Doctor
again. ;-) As far as what impact removing ikhlayer.sys has on Spyware
Doctor, I have no idea. That fix was from PCTools and its their program.

In my opinion, if an application cannot play nice with XP then it should be
fixed or dumped and replaced with an application that can.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

Wes,

Thank you very much for your prompt and informative reply. Yes, I have
Spyware Doctor installed and deleted the ikhlayer.sys file per your
suggestion. I restarted my computer and chkdsk was able to complete a
check. I shut down Windows and restarted again and the message that I
previously got no longer appeared. All appears well and back to normal.

I do have another question though. What impact will I have on Spyware
Doctor or any other functions will I experience by deleting the
ikhlayer.sys file? If I uninstall Spyware Doctor and reinstall it again
will I have to once again delete the ikhlayer.sys file to be able to fun
disk check?

Once again thank you for solving this irritating problem.

Brad

Apparently chkdsk is sceduled to run and you have a program that will not
allow it to open volume for direct access.

Cannot lock volume for direct access
Cannot open volume for direct access

A program called Hitman Pro can cause the problem.

A really old version of ZoneAlarm (a version from 2004) can cause the
problem.

Spyware Doctor can also cause the problem.

The /x switch doesn't work if Spyware Doctor is installed. Spyware
Doctor needs to be uninstalled or you can do this...

Quoted from *PCTools*, *Spyware* *Doctor*...
1. Exit from Spyware Doctor (to exit from Spyware
Doctor please right click on the Spyware Doctor icon in
the notification area (next to the clock on the Windows
taskbar) and select Exit from the menu that appears)

2. Delete the file
ikhlayer.sys from %windir%\system32\drivers\
or
from c:\windows\system32\drivers\

3. Restart Spyware Doctor

Chkdsk, defrag and error-checking should now work.
-----

[[There is currently no fix for this problem.]]
[[NOTE: You may have success if you schedule Chkdsk to run at startup and
use the /X switch, which will force a dismount. ]]
from...
JSI Tip 7079. You receive 'Cannot open volume for direct access' when
Chkdsk runs during Windows XP startup
http://www.jsifaq.com/subO/tip7000/rh7079.htm

To run chkdsk from a command prompt.

Start | Run | Type: cmd | Click OK |
In the command prompt, type:

chkdsk C: /x

Hit your Enter key.

The following error message appears:
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Would
you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system
restarts? (Y/N)

Type Y, hit Enter and close the command prompt.

Reboot.

The /x switch: Use with NTFS only. Forces the volume to dismount first,
if necessary. All open handles to the drive are invalidated. /x also
includes the functionality of /f. The /F switch fixes errors on the
disk.

Unable to run CHKDSK
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555484

Check Disk runs on every boot.

Open a command prompt...
Start | Run | Type: cmd | Click OK |
Type or paste the following line:

chkntfs /d

Hit the Enter key.

The /d switch restores the machine to the default behavior; all drives
are checked at boot time and chkdsk is run on those that are dirty.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

I tried to run the detect and repair disk errors and when Windows shut
down and restarted, I now get this message

Checking file system on C The type of file system is NTFS
Cannot open volume for direct access
Windows has finished checking the disk

I've shut down and restarted up Windows about 10 times and this message
continues to show on start up before Windows completely opens. It
doesn't appear to be causing any problems, but I would like to know
what I can do so this message doesn't continue to appear. Thanks

 

[Guest]

hi this is the solution i`m looking for how do i uninstall
ikhlayer.sys from %windir%\system32\divers\
thankyou

Hi Brad,

I have never used Spyware Doctor. I was helping a gal, about mid February
of this year, with a chkdsk problem and she discovered that it was Spyware
Doctor causing the chkdsk problem. She also posted the PCTools, Spyware
Doctor fix on Feb 12 2006. PCTools has been aware of this problem since
around that time and has been working on the issue. As far as I know they
may have an update out by now. It took ZoneLabs a while in 2004 to come up
with a fix for their problem with chkdsk.

To answer your question, if Spyware Doctor has not been updated and you
uninstall it, you would need to delete ikhlayer.sys again. Of course you
could confirm this yourself by uninstalling and installing Spyware Doctor
again. ;-) As far as what impact removing ikhlayer.sys has on Spyware
Doctor, I have no idea. That fix was from PCTools and its their program.

In my opinion, if an application cannot play nice with XP then it should be
fixed or dumped and replaced with an application that can.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

Wes,

Thank you very much for your prompt and informative reply. Yes, I have
Spyware Doctor installed and deleted the ikhlayer.sys file per your
suggestion. I restarted my computer and chkdsk was able to complete a
check. I shut down Windows and restarted again and the message that I
previously got no longer appeared. All appears well and back to normal.

I do have another question though. What impact will I have on Spyware
Doctor or any other functions will I experience by deleting the
ikhlayer.sys file? If I uninstall Spyware Doctor and reinstall it again
will I have to once again delete the ikhlayer.sys file to be able to fun
disk check?

Once again thank you for solving this irritating problem.

Brad

Apparently chkdsk is sceduled to run and you have a program that will not
allow it to open volume for direct access.

Cannot lock volume for direct access
Cannot open volume for direct access

A program called Hitman Pro can cause the problem.

A really old version of ZoneAlarm (a version from 2004) can cause the
problem.

Spyware Doctor can also cause the problem.

The /x switch doesn't work if Spyware Doctor is installed. Spyware
Doctor needs to be uninstalled or you can do this...

Quoted from *PCTools*, *Spyware* *Doctor*...
1. Exit from Spyware Doctor (to exit from Spyware
Doctor please right click on the Spyware Doctor icon in
the notification area (next to the clock on the Windows
taskbar) and select Exit from the menu that appears)

2. Delete the file
ikhlayer.sys from %windir%\system32\drivers\
or
from c:\windows\system32\drivers\

3. Restart Spyware Doctor

Chkdsk, defrag and error-checking should now work.
-----

[[There is currently no fix for this problem.]]
[[NOTE: You may have success if you schedule Chkdsk to run at startup and
use the /X switch, which will force a dismount. ]]
from...
JSI Tip 7079. You receive 'Cannot open volume for direct access' when
Chkdsk runs during Windows XP startup
http://www.jsifaq.com/subO/tip7000/rh7079.htm

To run chkdsk from a command prompt.

Start | Run | Type: cmd | Click OK |
In the command prompt, type:

chkdsk C: /x

Hit your Enter key.

The following error message appears:
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Would
you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system
restarts? (Y/N)

Type Y, hit Enter and close the command prompt.

Reboot.

The /x switch: Use with NTFS only. Forces the volume to dismount first,
if necessary. All open handles to the drive are invalidated. /x also
includes the functionality of /f. The /F switch fixes errors on the
disk.

Unable to run CHKDSK
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555484

Check Disk runs on every boot.

Open a command prompt...
Start | Run | Type: cmd | Click OK |
Type or paste the following line:

chkntfs /d

Hit the Enter key.

The /d switch restores the machine to the default behavior; all drives
are checked at boot time and chkdsk is run on those that are dirty.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In Brad <[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
I tried to run the detect and repair disk errors and when Windows shut
down and restarted, I now get this message

Checking file system on C The type of file system is NTFS
Cannot open volume for direct access
Windows has finished checking the disk

I've shut down and restarted up Windows about 10 times and this message
continues to show on start up before Windows completely opens. It
doesn't appear to be causing any problems, but I would like to know
what I can do so this message doesn't continue to appear. Thanks