Problem with Chkdsk

[Tenshodo]

Recentley I have been having a problem with Chkdsk. I have been trying to use boot time defrag with diskeeper on my computer. However, Chkdsk didn't run, and it skipped right to the defrag, which didn't work for some reason.

I logged on and I ran command and used chkdsk. It said it found errors and I should fix it.

I then ran chkdsk /f, but it coudln't run because it couldn't lock the drive, which was weird because nothing was open. I rebooted and went into safe mode. I ran it from there and again, it couldn't lock.

Any Idea on whats happening?

 

[Tenshodo]

bump

 

[Android8675]

You're in Windows, I'm guessing Windows XP? If you're running chkdsk on your C drive where windows resides then the drive cannot be repaired when Windows is running. There is a way to tell your system to run chkdsk when you reboot and before you get into Windows.

Open My Computer
Right-Click on your C: drive and choose Properties
Click on the Tools Tab
Click the first Check Now... button in Error-Checking box
Check the first checkbox to Automatically fix file system errors
Click Start

Windows will say it needs exclusive access to this drive to fix the errors and would you like to run it on reboot, click Yes, reboot and chkdsk will run before you get into Windows.

Just curious though, why are you doing a boot-time defrag?

 

[Tenshodo]

Already tried that doing manualy didn't work.

Anyway, I do boot time defrags because I want my boot time to be the shortest as possible.

 

[Green Man]

You could run chkdsk from the repair console.

 

[Tenshodo]

I also did try from the recovery. Every time I did chkkdsk, it would scan but not fix, but every time I did chkdsk /f or /r, it would always say it cannot lock and it would give me an option to do it on startup, which never worked.

When I do the starup chkdsk, it says it cannot get exclusive acess to the dsik.

 

[Tenshodo]

bump, help anyone?

 

[Green Man]

If you're still having problems, boot to a BartPE cd and run it. Don't switch to the c: drive before checking it because you don 't wabt to be standing on it when you're trying to check it. If you don't have a Bart cd handy, google the ultimate boot cd or something like that and you can probably download an ISO from somewhere.