Cannot run chkdsk on NTFS volume

When I attempt to run chkdsk via command prompt I’ve got warning saying:

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)

I chose Y but system restarts and nothing happens. There is no "checking disk has been scheduled…." screen. System continues to boot "normalyâ€

I`m running Win XP SP1 on NTFS volume.

Can anyone tells me what happens?

 

According to this MS article:

"If you want chkdsk to correct disk errors, you cannot have open files on the drive. If files are open, the following error message appears:

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) "

You can try running chkdsk with the /f switch (chkdsk /f). It should then give you the same "cannot run" message, to which you answer yes and this time, when you reboot, it should go ahead and run ( "should" being the key word there).

 

Yes,I run chkdsk wit f switch,after that I reboot machine but, as I said nothing happens, there is no screen that tells me that checking disk is in progress.
Computer simply restarts.

Problem is that I after run chkdsk without switches (in read-only mode,to see if any errors exists) after verification process tells me that found something wrong (I don`t remember exactly) in volume bitmap.

 

Exact error messages are pretty important.

You can run CHKDSK from the GUI interface.

Open My computer and right click on the drive to check. Select Properties~Tools~Check Now. On the Check Disk panel, check off both "Automatically fix file system errors and "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors." Click on "START "

You'll get back a "Checking Disk X:\" that says "The disk check could not be performed because exclusive access to the disk could not be obtained. Do you want to schedule this disk check to occur the next time you restart the computer? "

Click on "Yes" and OK your way out of there. Close everything and shutdown so that the machine is cold. Power up and let the machine boot.

You should get a blue and white screen that lists 5 tests being performed and saying

"Checking file system on X:\ "

"A disk check has been scheduled. "
"Windows will now check the disk "

...and then verifying Files, Indexes, Security Descriptors, USN Journal, File Data, and Free Space.

You can't blink and miss this.

Check out KB Q314835

Is this a laptop or a desktop system?

Do you have any tools loaded that have to do with disk management like Norton Utilties or DiskKeeper or ??? If you do, I would suggest uninstalling them to see if the problem goes away. If the problem goes away because you uninstalled something like the two mentioned, don't re-install them. XP has a suitable defragger as well as chkdsk...

 

The chkdsk command requires the file Autochk.exe. If it cannot find it in the startup directory (\%systemroot%\System32, by default), it will attempt to locate it on the Windows Installation CD. If you have a multiboot computer, be sure you are issuing this command from the drive containing Windows.

About Chkdsk...

KB Q218461

When Autochk runs against a volume at boot time it records its output to a file called Bootex.log in the root of the volume being checked. The Winlogon service then moves the contents of each Bootex.log file to the Application Event log.

One event log message for each volume checked is recorded as follows:

Event ID: 1001
Source: Winlogon


The kind of entries you might see could be:

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 124 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 124 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 124 unused security descriptors.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
Free space verification is complete.

39070048 KB total disk space.
4543376 KB in 19652 files.
5724 KB in 1954 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
103000 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
34417948 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
9767512 total allocation units on disk.
8604487 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
b7 69 00 00 72 54 00 00 4e 67 00 00 00 00 00 00 .i..rT..Ng......
aa 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 9e 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
26 61 c7 01 00 00 00 00 d8 37 f3 10 00 00 00 00 &a.......7......
d2 76 9c 01 00 00 00 00 12 93 ad d9 00 00 00 00 .v..............
f4 ab 8f 09 03 00 00 00 a2 2e 4f ff 03 00 00 00 ..........O.....
99 9e 36 00 00 00 00 00 c4 4c 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..6......L......
00 40 4e 15 01 00 00 00 a2 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 .@N.............

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

 

Yes,there is log in Event Viewer with ID 1001.
Problem is solved.
Thaks to all.


P.S
With Windows 2000 (SP3) on NTFS volume I haven`t problems like this.It seems that Win XP`s NTFS is little bugy.

 

I dunno. We got a bunch of XP-pro and all NTFS. Haven't noticed as many issues as with 2K (and there were very few of those). Running SP4 now and haven't had it long enough to know how it will behave though.

And I haven't heard of any problems with the convert command in XP for FAT to NTFS where as with 2K, there was the occasional disaster.