What's the best way to run CHKDSK?

[vikenk]

Hello everybody,

I just want to know what the best way is to run CHKDSK. Today, I ran chkdsk. I went to "Start"--> "Run" and typed "command". At the DOS window, I typed chkdsk. So far, so good. It says it found problems in the "Volume Bitmap" and "File System". So, I typed chkdsk /f and scheduled a scan at the next reboot. The system rebooted, ran the chkdsk and auto rebooted again. Chkdsk never mentioned if it fixed anything.

Once I got to Windows, I did a chkdsk again and guess what? More problems...Volume Bitmap and File System.

I've repeated this at least *8* times and every single time, chkdsk finds problems and wants me to reboot with the /F tag.

What's going on here? Does CHKDSK only fix one problem at a time during reboot? Whay doesn't it tell me that it found and fixed problems?

Is there a better way to run CHKDSK?

Thanks in advance.

VikenK

 

[Inaris]

open up my computer. Right click the hard drive you want to check, and then select properties. THen select tools and error checking, click check Now. Then select both check boxes and click start. This will give you a prompt to run the next time you reboot and click Yes. Then reboot. This will do it a lot more thoroughly.
Good Luck

 

[vikenk]

Thanks Inaris,

I did what you mentioned (I had forgotten that you could do it that way) but I'm still getting the same result.

Everytime I do a CHKDSK it finds problems. And every time, I reboot with the /F switch and it never seems to fix anything.

Not sure what to think...

 

[Inaris]

You have a drive that is dying. please post a picture or the text from the winlogon event message in the system eventlog. That will tell us more information.

start, run, eventvwr, click system, find even Winlogon and open it, either copy out the test of the message or post the information here so we can read it.

Thanks, and good luck

 

[vikenk]

Hello,

Here's the data for the last Event WinLogon (it was under 'Application' BTW). Here it shows that it found no problems, but while in the WindowsXP environment, it seems to find problems. Even Norton Utilities Disk Doctor finds problems.

The first 4 log iles did, in fact, show that it fixed problems. The funny thing is that it never really said anything on the screen...



Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
Free space verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

39070048 KB total disk space.
16324520 KB in 62762 files.
22788 KB in 3097 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
153428 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
22569312 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
9767512 total allocation units on disk.
5642328 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
30 2e 01 00 4f 01 01 00 4a 40 01 00 00 00 00 00 0...O...J@......
a8 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 a5 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
60 6e 11 03 00 00 00 00 a0 9d a6 0f 00 00 00 00 `n..............
80 dc ab 01 00 00 00 00 90 05 1d 77 02 00 00 00 ...........w....
10 10 3f 0d 02 00 00 00 90 7d 0a a1 04 00 00 00 ..?......}......
99 9e 36 00 00 00 00 00 88 38 07 00 2a f5 00 00 ..6......8..*...
00 00 00 00 00 a0 5e e4 03 00 00 00 19 0c 00 00 ......^.........

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.


For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.