STILL cannot run defrag (dirty bit/chkdsk problems)

From: Chris/Power Salad (powersalad_at_powersalad.com)
Date: 02/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:03:56 GMT

I have read all over rthe Net for a fix for this problem, including
Microsoft and others, and NOTHING works or directly addresses the
problem. I see though that many people have this identical problem, so
I am wondering if it is a Windows problem.

I suddenly could not defrag my C (boot) drive, I get the message
"Defragmenter has detected that Chkdsk is scheduled to run on drive C,
please run chkdsk /f" - Then when trying to run chkdsk, I get the
message about "Drive type is NTFS...Windows cannot open drive because
it is locked - do you want to schedule chkdsk at next boot?..."

I have done everything from answering Yes, No, running chkntfs (yes,
dirty bit is set but nothing addresses what to do about this), I have
altered the registry (BootExecute value to disable autocheck at
bootup), NOTHING works, I still cannot defrag this volume, nor can I
get Windows to fix whatever error is there. At least with ScanDisk I
could somewhat see what was going on.

XPHome, SP2, NAV but no ZoneAlarm or Diskeeper.

Does *anyone* have a definitive idea or fix for this??????

Thanks.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Comparison of NTFS/MFT recovery software?
    ... ChkDsk is inadequate and IMO is unfit for use, ... If it is not allowed to "fix" automatically, ... What you want is the ability to *interactively* check the file system, ... ChkDsk is NOT a data recovery tool, and has no right to presume to be ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
  • Re: Comparison of NTFS/MFT recovery software?
    ... ChkDsk is inadequate and IMO is unfit for use, ... If it is not allowed to "fix" automatically, ... What you want is the ability to *interactively* check the file system, ... ChkDsk is NOT a data recovery tool, and has no right to presume to be ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)
  • Re: Comparison of NTFS/MFT recovery software?
    ... ChkDsk is inadequate and IMO is unfit for use, ... If it is not allowed to "fix" automatically, ... What you want is the ability to *interactively* check the file system, ... ChkDsk is NOT a data recovery tool, and has no right to presume to be ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: What is the MFT?
    ... My system is all screwed up and when I ran CHKDSK /f it didn't fix ... 221325420 KB available on disk. ... 55331355 allocation units available on disk. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: cannot derag! something about F PARAMETER??
    ... > Hi, everytime i try and defrag, my computer says i need to run chkdsk... ... and it says F PARAMETER not specified...what can i do to fix ... Type "Y", then restart. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)