Defrag C Drive

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May 7th, 2008, 10:25 PM
John-the-Teacher

Defrag C Drive

I am using a IBM VL400 CPU with Windows XP. It has SP2 with 192 Mb [yes, 192 Mb] 797MH. Intel Pen III. Problem is when I Defrag the C Drive I get a error message.[*] "Disk defragmenter has detected that Chkdsk is scheduled to run on the volume. Please run Chkdsk /f. " when I use chkdsk /f I get only "cannot lock current drive" I did not think I was locking any thing? Or that I had a schedule for this action. How do I get the[*] off so that I can defrag the disk. I have 15% spare on the disk to defrag.
May 7th, 2008, 10:43 PM
Broni

192 what? MB?

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cannot lock current drive

means, that something else is using hard drive. Try Safe Mode.
May 8th, 2008, 04:45 AM
SpywareDr

If chkdsk cannot lock the drive, a message should appear that asks you if you want to check the drive the next time you restart the computer. Respond with a Yes, Reboot, and you should then see chkdsk doing it's thing right before Windows loads.
May 8th, 2008, 10:14 AM
SuperSparks

This is what you should get:
May 9th, 2008, 10:12 AM
John-the-Teacher

Hi

1. F8 for safe mode brings up mult files under system32 and hangs
2. No msg appers before the Windows screen appears. It just goes into its question: One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel . . . Windows will not check the disk. [ans below]

Stage 1 of 1 [ok]
Stage 2 of 3 [never gets to 3 of 3]
Correcting error in index $0 for file 4397.
[then it hangs]
Might also mention that when I do a defrag, it ask the question: ..... do a chkdsk /f. When I do that under 'run' it hangs and the HD leds is lite.
Nevers gets a screen to ask for schedule of next visit.
May 9th, 2008, 10:33 AM
photolady

In Run, have you tried typing cmd, hit Enter, then type chkdsk /f in that command window instead of the way you're doing it?
May 9th, 2008, 10:44 AM
John-the-Teacher

Yes, Photolady, I got "the type of the file system is NTFS. Cannot lock current drive."
And again, it hangs up
May 9th, 2008, 11:01 AM
Broni

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F8 for safe mode brings up mult files under system32 and hangs

Please, explain.
Do you keep tapping (not holding) F8 when computer restarts?
May 9th, 2008, 11:03 AM
SuperSparks

Try typing "Chkntfs C: /D" at the Command Prompt. That should reset disk checking back to it's default settings.
May 9th, 2008, 06:49 PM
John-the-Teacher

Broni
No, just one short tap. Am trying Chkntfs now.
May 9th, 2008, 07:47 PM
Broni

You have to keep tapping F8 key until menu appears.
May 13th, 2008, 10:08 PM
John-the-Teacher

After trying all the suggestions above I still have the same problem. When I run Defrag, I get the error message "Disk degragmenter has detected that chkdsk is scheduled to run on the volume: [C]. Please run Chkdsk /f" I ran it and ran the other attributes to chkdsk with no results, positive. [chkdsk - chkNTSF, etc.
May 13th, 2008, 10:22 PM
Broni

Goto My Computer->Right Click C Drive->Properties->Tools tab->Click on Check Now under Error Reporting->Check both the boxes under Check Disk Options->Click on Start.
Once the process is complete, restart your computer and make sure you Disk Defragmenter works fine. :)

Note that it might say that chkdsk will run in the next reboot. In that case, Restart computer and chkdsk will run during next reboot.
May 14th, 2008, 01:42 PM
Train

If the above does not work, boot to the M$ cd and use the recovery console [ first R]
At the prompt [type in] chkdsk C: /F /R
now hit enter.

/F should take care of the bad sector(s) you seem to be hitting.

Now go to bed and get a good nights sleep is what I suggest as it can take hours to complete.