CHKDSK DRIVING ME MAD ....

please help me, pretty pretty please.. *sniff**sniff*

Published on October 6, 2009 By mike b1954 In Personal Computing

Just another quickie hopefully ... ( sitting Comfortably ?)

By that , I mean I hope this is resolved pretty sharpish ...

Chapter 1 ... !

Yesterday ,I bought a brand new External Maxtor 500 gb hd for my mate ( birthday treat) ...

Read all instructions .. installed the usb and the transformer supplied ... no probs ... and plugged in and turned on ..

No problems ... found new hardware popup .. installed drivers ...

Rebooted and the new disc showed up in the my Computer page ... all A - OK ...

Formatted the disc no probs .... Checked with Defender , AVG .. Iobit360 Clean as a whistle ...

Copied a few bits and pieces over from his docs and pics to make sure everything is fine ...

It was ....

After this I left him to go home ...

This morning ..I get a call to pop round and I see his PC is running a CHKDSK routine , on his new HD,

and found out it had been doing it for a couple of hours ...

and he still had not seen his logon screen ...

I then held in the main start button on the pc ~ it turned itself off , I waited a couple of minutes ~

and then I hit the On button again ...

Once I did that after a few secs the CHKDSK started to run again on the new HD ..

I pressed "any key" ~ and LO and behold Vista started ...

Chapter 2 ....

So ~ ~

Once again I ran the Defender, Avg etc ... clean as a whistle .. again ... Rebooted ,

~ and the damn CHKDSK started running again by this time I was totally flummoxed ,

as was the birthday boy !

So I tried to find out using the help and support section how to TURN OFF the CHKDSK

function for that drive

and had no luck .....

Chapter 3 ... !

Which leads me to the question ....

HOW DO I TURN THE DARN THING OFF SO IT NEVER DOES IT AGAIN .... ? ?

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Dual-booting Vista Home Premium ~ all Service packs and up to date (new PC) and Windows 7 RC build7100

Intel CoreDuo E4700 at 2,60 Ghz , Nvidia Geforce 9300 GE ...

( Sorry its was long winded Guys and gals , I thought I had better try to explain things as they happened .... )

Mike

(ps sorry for the large font .. I put my spex down somewhere and cant find them ...)

Comments (Page 2)

mike b1954

on Oct 07, 2009

yrag .. where do I find the Disk Management Console ,

~ and If I do Format Fat32quick will I lose what is on the Maxtor ?

Shelby ..doing ..

ShelbyGT_The_Car

on Oct 07, 2009

yes all data on the drive will be removed if you reformat...

yrag

on Oct 07, 2009

Try Shelbygt's first while you have NTFS format:

Correct commands:

CMD: CHKNTFS /J D:
Reboot
CMD: Chkdsk /f /r d:
On completion: CMD: fsutil dirty query d:

ShelbyGT_The_Car

on Oct 07, 2009

CMD: CHKNTFS /J D:
Reboot
CMD: Chkdsk /f /r d:
On completion: CMD: fsutil dirty query d:

????

maybe?

CMD: CHKNTFS /D J:
Reboot
CMD: Chkdsk /f /r J:
On completion: CMD: fsutil dirty query J:

Plus another way is to use safe mode and I think you can run safe mode with a command prompt...

mike b1954

on Oct 07, 2009

SUCCESS !!!

I got as far as "CMD: CHKNTFS /J D: Reboot "

Turned off completely , Turned back on , and Vista came in as it should ...

and just to make sure Turned off and then back on again ... and Vista came up ...

Thank you ever so much guys ...... I truly appreciate it ...

Now I can get to bed .... I wasnt looking forward to a night of tossing and turning trying to sort this one out ....

Yrag , Shelby ..YO DE MEN , for sure ...

Thanks .. Lots of them .. Kindest Regards ... and goodnight !

Mike

( When all is said and done , I wonder what caused it ... ? )

~ later ... !

ShelbyGT_The_Car

on Oct 07, 2009

OK another thing if you use the command

Chkdsk /f /r J: on that new drive and it says it is repair a bad sector or marking a bad sector. Then something is wrong with that new drive. You should contact the manufacture with that information and get another drive under warranty. Not sure but you will have to pay shipping on it. But then again you can try to take back to where you bought the drive at. They should give you another one.

Besure to get your files off the drive by coping them to another drive for backup. I got a feeling some of the files may not copy?

But give it a try. Plus you can try this also if all else fails to work with what we are trying to do already here. Go ahead and backup the files on the drive to another drive. Then as yrag has said reformat it to fat32. Restart the computer and see if there is no problems with the restart and then do another format back to ntfs and do not use quick format - also name the volume to something.

If this fails and you continue to have problems as this with that drive it is faulty and needs to be returned for warranty.

ShelbyGT_The_Car

on Oct 07, 2009

You may only be getting the command we did earlier to skip the chkdsk at startup or boot. Thus the dirty bit is still set on the drive - you need to check things completely again tomorrow.

Do contact me at my email listed in my profile.

Tomorrow!

mike b1954

on Oct 07, 2009

Just an update for y'all ~

so far everything is running as it should ... and everything is cool !! Yayyyy !

Fanx to yrag and Shelby .. and Philly for getting hold of people ... !!

Regards

Mike

PS Philly .. I found me spex ... Left 'em in the car !! hahahahaha .....

Shelby You have a PM !

Philly0381

on Oct 07, 2009

Glad to hear everything is working as it should, well all except keeping track of your glasses.

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