ChkDsk

[Jerry]

I have winXP Pro with 128mb of Ram, with 6 partitions on a 80gb HD, with XP
on C-drive and have had it running smoothly for about a month. This morning
when the PC was turned on, it said that chkdsk was scheduled to run on
D-drive.which is where I have Programs installed. I had not scheduled
this, but I let it run and I noticed that it only ran the first 3 parts of
the chkdsk and then proceeded to boot normally. After XP was fully booted,
I went to My Computer and tried to run a defrag on D-drive. I got a notice
that because ChkDsk was scheduled to run on the next reboot, defrag could
not be run.
I then scheduled F-drive and D-drive to run ChkDsk on the next boot. When
the pc was booted both chkdsk's ran normal, running all 5 parts. Then I
went back to D-drive and tried to defrag again, with the same message that
chkdsk was scheduled to run the next boot. After numerous checks, even
doing a systems restore to 4 days previous, it seems that only D-drive is
affected and so far nothing I have done has had any affect. Everything else
seems to run normally.

If anyone has any ideas I would greatly appreciate the help.

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"Jerry" > wrote in message
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Chkdsk, from within Windows, doesn't always work properly. To ensure that it
works the right way, boot from your XP CD and take the first Repair option
that comes up. That leaves you at a DOS looking prompt. Now if they aren't
severe problems, use the command chkdsk /p and let it run on each hard
drive. If they are likely to be severe ones, use chkdsk /r which takes quite
a while.