Re: Unable to start CHKDSK

Ah ! A funny thing is that my PC works great in normal mode, but it won't
boot in safe mode !!
All the drivers seem to load correctly, and then the screen stays black for
10 minutes, HDD led permanently ON with no head moving sound, and nothing
happens!!

The problem for NTFS2dos is that I am using a notebook, so I don't have a
floppy drive !

Thank you for your help
Philippe


"Sam" <no@xxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
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Somewhere within your system there is something still running causing
a conflict. Check disk has trouble running with any program that is
accessing the drive when its trying to run. The first thing you can try is
booting into safe mode "F8" on boot-up and selecting "safe mode".

Sometimes certian nic cards can interrupt check disk. If you have DSL or
Cable disconnect the cable and run the program from here. If it works,
this
tells you that a program outside of the OS is the problem or your nic
card.
Safe mode only loads items it needs for the OS.

If that doesn't work...a work around you could try is NTFSDOS Pro.

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/NtfsDosProfessional.html

This program will copy information to floppy disks allowing you to boot
from
them. When executed, it mounts the drive(s) in a DOS environment. From
here
you can run NTFSCHK (check disk). The only thing I cannot answer is
whether
or not the NTFSCHK is accessible in the read-only version. If not, go to
windows\system32 and copy chkdsk.exe to a floppy and run it after you run
NTFSDOS and are at the DOS prompt.

Hope this helps

"Philou" <p@xxxxx> wrote in message
news:enw3adA4GHA.4924@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Good evening!
I cannot defrag my system volume anymore, it says me "start chkdsk". I
run
"chkdsk /f", which asks me to restart.
I then restart, and CHKDSK outputs the error "unable to lock volume for
direct access"
I followed the KB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555484/en-us : I
deactivated my Kaspersky, etc all non-MS services, but it didn't help.
My C volume is placed on a 200 Gb RAID-0 array (Intel chipset in a
notebook)
constituted of 2x100Gb.

Have you got any idea to solve this ?

Regards
Philippe








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