Problems running chkdsk on laptop with external drives
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Posted by Dave Rado on January 13, 2007, 1:41 am
Please log in for more thread options If I try to run chkdsk on my external USB drive plugged into my Toshiba T1800-314 laptop, I get the following message: "The disk check could not be performed because the disk check utility needs exclusive access to some Windows files on the disk. These files can be accessed only by restarting Windows. Do you want to schedule this disk check to occur the next time you restart the computer?" If I select "Yes", the disk check does not run when I restart the computer because the system can't "see" the drive until Windows is running, by which time it's too late for it to run without that message being displayed again. However, if I attach the same USB drive to a friend's desktop computer, I can run chkdsk on the same drive without any warning messages being displayed and without any problems. Toshiba claim they can't reproduce the problem and said I should try formatting my USB drive. I have now done so, and it has made no difference - even when the drive is freshly formatted (with a full format) and contains no data at all, the warning message is still displayed and chkdsk still won't run. I can't find any references to the drive in my registry either. Weird! Any ideas? Dave | |||||||||||||
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Posted by philo on January 13, 2007, 8:23 am
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try from safe mode (assuming you can see the drive there) | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Dave Rado on January 13, 2007, 9:03 am
Please log in for more thread options Hi Philo
philo wrote: > try from safe mode
> (assuming you can see the drive there) I get the same problem in safe mode. Any more ideas? Dave | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Don Phillipson on January 13, 2007, 8:58 am
Please log in for more thread options > I have Win XP Pro SP2.
> > If I try to run chkdsk on my external USB drive plugged into my Toshiba > T1800-314 laptop, I get the following message: "The disk check could > not be performed because the disk check utility needs exclusive access > to some Windows files on the disk. These files can be accessed only by > restarting Windows. Do you want to schedule this disk check to occur > the next time you restart the computer?" If I select "Yes", the disk > check does not run when I restart the computer because the system can't > "see" the drive until Windows is running, by which time it's too late > for it to run without that message being displayed again. > > However, if I attach the same USB drive to a friend's desktop computer, > I can run chkdsk on the same drive without any warning messages being > displayed and without any problems. CHKDSK is a DOS tool from the 1980s. The usual Windows tool is SCANDISK which can verify files currently loaded. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Dave Rado on January 13, 2007, 9:59 am
Please log in for more thread options Hi Don
Don Phillipson wrote: > CHKDSK is a DOS tool from the 1980s.
> The usual Windows tool is SCANDISK which can > verify files currently loaded. > > -- > Don Phillipson > Carlsbad Springs > (Ottawa, Canada) I'm talking about the utility that runs if you right-click on a drive letter in Windows XP, select Properties, go to the Tools tab, and under "Error-checking", click the "Check Now" button, then select "Automatically fix file system errors" and "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" and click "Start". In Win 98 it was called Scandisk, but in XP I have only ever seen it referred to as chkdsk,.including by Microsoft MVPs. Dave | |||||||||||||
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> If I try to run chkdsk on my external USB drive plugged into my Toshiba
> T1800-314 laptop, I get the following message: "The disk check could
> not be performed because the disk check utility needs exclusive access
> to some Windows files on the disk. These files can be accessed only by
> restarting Windows.