xp home ed.'s chkdsk.exe...

[RJK]

well, after hours of digging on my machine and on the web, and fiddling, i
think I've arrived at the following understanding.

....the GUI version chkdsk.exe (Untfs.dll and Ufat.dll ? ), is designed to be
only partially functional, and calls autochk.exe, to check the state of NTFS
on a drive, when chkdsk.exe is scheduled to run on boot up and/or on a drive
flagged as dirty :-
....it can't work on a drive that has files locked in use - so has to be run
from a DOS mode, (that's not available in XP!), early in the boot up
procedure before Windows starts to load.

Running chkdsk.exe from a CMD window on my c:\ boot drive tells me there is
a problem with c:'s "security descriptors / or metafile" for my c: drive,
and that there are errors in the volume bitmap, as does Norton SystemWorks
Windoctor, but, this is possibly just a lie because running chkdsk.exe from
a CMD window, in Safe Mode, indicates no problems with anything at all.

....I wonder is there's anything out there that works properly, and can look
at my NTFS drives and tell me the truth. ?

regards, Richard

 

[RJK]

....can i put in a registry key to make XP run=chkdsk.exe /f at startup,
so that it runs where it would normally run, if it would run on mine at
startup, like it should do, and used to do but, won't any more ?

regards, Richard