Chkdsk /f issue in XP Pro

[LV38_Eagle]

Windows XP Pro recently crashed during a fairly high overclock stability test, and has become corrupted somewhere. Most things work without problem, but when I try to defrag, I get a little window saying I have to run ‘chkdsk /f’ first.

No problem, but when I try to run chkdsk /f, I get a warning saying the disk is in use by another process, (I would guess it is referring to Windows), and would I like to run chkdsk /f at next reboot. To which I answer yes, but it never runs at next reboot.

If anyone has had this problem, or knows how to remedy it, please let me know.

 

[LV38_Eagle]

One bump, just to see if the right person missed it.

 

[weswes]

You may try one of those 2 ways :
First , try to run ur XP in safe mode then run chkdsk. OR ...do it the manual way..i.e: turn ur pc on.>>>....press (F8) >>> choose ( run in command mode only ) >>>> run chkdsk
hope this helps