Checkdisk

[Keith Chessell]

When I run Checkdisk from My Computer all goes well until
the Checkdisk Screen is reached following Restart. The
message then displayed is:
"A disk check has been scheduled.
Disk checking has been cancelled.
Windows has finished checking the disk."

The system then returns to the desktop. Deliberately
powering off results in a normal Diskcheck taking place.
Any suggestions welcome.

[Gerry Cornell]

Keith

If you have more than one drive / partition you can check any drive / =
partition immediately except the active drive where the operating system =
is located. With that drive the running of chkdsk is scheduled to take =
place when the computer next restarts before Windows is started.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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"Keith Chessell" > wrote in message =
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> When I run Checkdisk from My Computer all goes well until=20
> the Checkdisk Screen is reached following Restart. The=20
> message then displayed is:
> "A disk check has been scheduled.
> Disk checking has been cancelled.
> Windows has finished checking the disk."
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> The system then returns to the desktop. Deliberately=20
> powering off results in a normal Diskcheck taking place.=20
> Any suggestions welcome.

[Ray Mewshaw]

Keith,
I've seen the same problem. Not sure what is causing it, but on my machine
when chkdsk runs after restart it will say it can't get control of a locked
volume and chkdsk is being cancelled. For some reason there is a file that
is getting in the way and not allowing chkdsk to start. What I found was
that I could go in the C partition, from windows, do a disk cleanup getting
rid of temp internet files, temp files, etc., and then chkdsk would run
properly at startup.

Maybe this is what is happening to you. Wouldn't hurt to try and see.

"Keith Chessell" > wrote in message
...
> When I run Checkdisk from My Computer all goes well until
> the Checkdisk Screen is reached following Restart. The
> message then displayed is:
> "A disk check has been scheduled.
> Disk checking has been cancelled.
> Windows has finished checking the disk."
>
> The system then returns to the desktop. Deliberately
> powering off results in a normal Diskcheck taking place.
> Any suggestions welcome.

[Keith Chessell]

Ray,
Thanks for the advice. It worked. I also deleted all the
Prefetch information at the same time just to be on the
safe side. I still don't know what was causing the problem
but what ever it was has now gone and the whole system
seems to have speeded up as well.
Keith
>-----Original Message-----
>Keith,
>I've seen the same problem. Not sure what is causing it,
but on my machine
>when chkdsk runs after restart it will say it can't get
control of a locked
>volume and chkdsk is being cancelled. For some reason
there is a file that
>is getting in the way and not allowing chkdsk to start.
What I found was
>that I could go in the C partition, from windows, do a
disk cleanup getting
>rid of temp internet files, temp files, etc., and then
chkdsk would run
>properly at startup.
>
>Maybe this is what is happening to you. Wouldn't hurt to
try and see.
>
>"Keith Chessell" > wrote in
message
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>> When I run Checkdisk from My Computer all goes well
until
>> the Checkdisk Screen is reached following Restart. The
>> message then displayed is:
>> "A disk check has been scheduled.
>> Disk checking has been cancelled.
>> Windows has finished checking the disk."
>>
>> The system then returns to the desktop. Deliberately
>> powering off results in a normal Diskcheck taking place.
>> Any suggestions welcome.
>
>
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