Re: Shutdown is erratic

If you get an error something to the effect "cannot open volume for direct access" There is some system/boot start device that is reading/writing to the drive before chkdsk can get a lock on the drive. Some anti-virus applications do this. Hence the suggestion to run it always from the recovery console.

Windows 2000 includes the convert.exe utility that allows you to convert to NTFS without any loss of data. The downside to this is you'll end up with 512 byte clusters which is pretty inefficient, slow, and more prone to fragmentation. The overhead of traversing a greater number of clusters to retrieve and commit data will result in a degradation in file system (or disk I/O) performance. Best to choose NTFS at the time of install.


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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"James" wrote:
I did manage to accomplish the above - but, not without jumping through the
usual 'computer' hoops, i.e., converting from FAT32 to NTFS {seemed to be a
'can't lock drive' issue with FAT32}. Did the conversion, then encountered
'chkdsk /f cannot run because the volume is in use . . .' . Got past that
with a 'Can do on re-boot, if you want.' I opted for that - and then
doubted if indeed chkdsk /f had actually been performed {it seemed to happen
to quickly - but, I guess it 'ran.'

Time will tell if the combo 'UPHClean.msi executable file' and chkdsk /f
solved my intermittent failure to automatically shut-off problem.

Thanks, james



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