Re: CHKDSK /r response not understood - Virus?

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"Jim Rainfordson" <jimrainfordson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the post Pegasus.

To be clear, I meant that "I" didn't understand the response. I'm
certainly not adept at this sort of thing. What's puzzling to me is
why is it telling me that drive is in use when I see no evidence that
it is and don't see how it can be given it's completely empty.

The bigger problem is that when I try to reformat the drive (using
Disk Management via control panel admin tools). If I try to delete
the partition (25 Gigs) it hangs for about 15 minutes then says "The
request cannot be completed because the volume is open or in use. It
may be configured as a system, boot, or pagefile volume, or, to hold a
crash dump file." Now, I don't understand all those terms, but again,
the drive is empty and I understand why any processes should effect
that drive. They never did before. Also, a second window pops up
saying "The partition logical drive is currently in use. To force the
deletion of this partition click Yes... do you want to continue?" I
say yes and it eventually works, but if I reformat the drive, the same
error occurs.

If I boot in safe mode, then everything with checkdisk and disk
management seems to work normally. (My True Image which scans the
drive before making a BU also works normally).

While it's true that things seem to be functioning normally, I want to
rule out hard drive failure, viruses. It might be my imagination but
some tasks seem to be running slower.

Any advice is appreciated.

The fact that things work normally in Safe Mode and not so well
in Normal Mode indicates that you have some agent in Normal Mode
that intereferes with disk management operations. You can do this
to identify this agent:
- Physically disconnect your machine from the Internet.
- Run msconfig.exe.
- Untick every item under the Startup tab.
- Tick "Hide Microsoft Services" under the Services tab.
- Untick all remaining services.
- Reboot the machine and test your disk management functions.

I expect the functions to be fully operative. Now restore the
various services and startup tasks until you have identified the
culprit.


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