On Sunday 13 Nov 2005 8:43 am, Pingveno wrote: > Yeah, this is the main partition. According to the web sites I have > read, there should be no problem with what I'm doing, even with this > being the boot partition. > > Here's the message I get when I run "chkdsk /f": > <output> > The type of the file system is NTFS. > Cannot lock current drive. > > Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another > process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be > checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N) Y > > This volume will be checked the next time the system restarts. > </output> > > Yet when I restart, there is no unusual lag in the start up (which would > be necessary to scan an entire hard drive). I also continue getting the > message, upon running chkdsk without /f, that I need to do chkdsk /f. > Weird. > > -Pingveno Looks like some how dirty bit setting has been disabled on your drive which is essential for running chkdsk at boot time. Try running fsutil to query/set the dirty bit on your drive. To read more about fsutil head here http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/ServerHelp/740cb38b-66dc-41e2-9f0b-7f2816c7c2ca.mspx
Abhay
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