Re: Chkdsk problem

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From: null (null_at_planetzero.com)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:07:39 -0400

anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:

> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
> (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Neath>chkdsk /f
> The type of the file system is NTFS.
> Cannot lock current drive.
>
> Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
> process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be
> checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)

Have you installed SP2 yet? That might fix it. 

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