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From: Jonathan (Jonathan_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:53:03 -0800

When I schedule scan disk using chkdsk /f, on the restart the function can
not run b/c it can not unlock the (c) drive I'm trying to check.

Any pointers on how to unlock the c drive so I can run the chkdsk tool. I'm
running on Windows XP and the NTFS system.

Thanks 

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Windows XP user

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