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On Sunday 13 Nov 2005 8:43 am, Pingveno wrote: |
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> Yeah, this is the main partition. According to the web sites I have |
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> read, there should be no problem with what I'm doing, even with this |
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> being the boot partition. |
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> |
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> Here's the message I get when I run "chkdsk /f": |
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> <output> |
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> The type of the file system is NTFS. |
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> Cannot lock current drive. |
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> |
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> Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another |
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> process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be |
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> checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N) Y |
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> This volume will be checked the next time the system restarts. |
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> </output> |
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> |
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> Yet when I restart, there is no unusual lag in the start up (which would |
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> be necessary to scan an entire hard drive). I also continue getting the |
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> message, upon running chkdsk without /f, that I need to do chkdsk /f. |
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> Weird. |
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> |
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> -Pingveno |
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Looks like some how dirty bit setting has been disabled on your drive which is |
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essential for running chkdsk at boot time. Try running fsutil to query/set |
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the dirty bit on your drive. To read more about fsutil head here |
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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/ServerHelp/740cb38b-66dc-41e2-9f0b-7f2816c7c2ca.mspx |
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Abhay |
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