I have a Dell Dimension 3000 and Windows XP Home Edition.My computer will not stop running the CHKDSK. It takes about an hour and then it finishes up and says "CHKDSK finished, the drive is clean.", but then it freezes there and I can't click out of it. I have to hold the button in to reboot and everytime the computer goes on an infinite loop of CHKDSK and I can never get past the last page where it says it's done.I really need to use my computer, but I haven't been able to anything with it for about 4 days. I tried using safemode and it froze on that too.
Whenever I open up My Computer and browse Local C drive, it takes at least 10 seconds to open up a single folder. I did chkdsk /f /r thing and found no errors on my C drive. I am also possitive that my PC is malware free.
I would like to know what background services I REALLY NEED and what services I have no use for. Can the forum members point me to a guide that can detail the services I can turn off in WINXP PRO SP2.
hi guys,i run avg free v 7.5,yesterday i found out that the updates for it finish on 31st may,i was so upset as i think it is marvellous,my daughter recommended avast v. 4.8 with the free registration ,is it any good for the xp pc,
I have finished on the internet and disconnect , I may be playing a game or just working offline , suddenly what ever i am doing dissapears and my internet dial up box appears and asks if i want to reconnect , i say no and it goes for a couple of minits and then its back , does any one know how to stop this happening ,happens at least 10 every half hour ,it just keeps interrupting ,
When I start up, it isn't always clear when the computer has finished loading all the software. The egg timer appears and dissapears, I click on Mailwasher and nothing happens. I cick again and I get a message: Mailwasher is already running.
i've been trying to do a system restore (manually, it's not like the system is doing it on his own), but in the end when it's supposed to show the message of having finished the process, it always says that the system couldn't be restored. I've tryied several restoration points, but no matter how different or how far it just won't do.
A while ago my pc started randomly freezing when i booted up, usually have to reboot three or four times before it works properly, i guess i must have a virus or something but no scans i run pick up anything obvious. Also when i try to shutdown, the screen freezes on the "Windows is preparing to shut down" screen.
im running windows xp home and im trying 2 find the log for chkdsk as i ran a scan but the results never stayed up long enough 2 read so is there a log somewhere ?
I was trying to defrag my aunt's comuter witht the Windows (xp home) built in defragger. I got an error message that said to run scan disk or chkdsk. While I'm familiar with scan disk, I know it's not an option on xp. So I went to "start", "run", and typed in chkdsk and hit ok...up pops a dos window and it says something to the fact of : "f parameter not specified. running chkdsk in read only mode", and then it does a quick run and nothing happens. I still can't defrag. How do I run chkdsk.
I keep getting and error message Windows - Corrupt File - The file or directory C:|$MFT is corrupt and unreadable. Please run Chkdsk utility. I have run the utility many times and get nothing but verification of files. I can't turn on either /f or /r. which would hopefully correct the problem. I am using Windows XP Home.
exactly what do I put in the "run" part to check the below error message?. C:PROGRA~1common FilesAOLACSSinf.ini is corrupt and unreadable please run the Chkdisk utility.
To bring you up to date here is what I said last time MY ORIGINAL POST I am running Win XP SP2. The last 3 times I turned on the computer it put itself through CHKDSK. Each time finding loads of problems with $130 also loads of orphaned files. What is going on? How do I fix it? Ray
HERE IS THE ADVICE I RECEIVED Go to All Programs>Accessories>Command prompt and type chkdsk /r (there is a space before /) Enter Reboot and it will run
NOW
I followed the advice and it all worked perfectly for the next 2 times that I turned on my computer. This morning I turned on and it was back to going through CHKDSK again.
I have up to date AVG anti virus. I ran a full system check. Nothing found. I have up to date Spybot. I ran a full system check. Nothing found. I hace Comodo Firewall. Up to date I ran Registry Mechanic.
I am using an IBM Thinkpad R40 that runs XP. It was running extremely slow, so I asked someone for some ideas. The first thing they told me to do was run a CHKDSK. (start run ect.) and walked me through the scheduling process. Well, when I rebooted, it took 4 plus hours, to tell me an error had occured and I am stuck looking at a blue screen. If I let it sit long enough, it repeats the process. I have attempted to cancel the check, but again it freezes on the blue screen. I have attempted to start it in safe-mode with the same result. How do I get to windows?
I am getting an error in the cmd when I performed a CHKDSK The error is WINDOWS discovered free space area marked as allocated in MFT I tried using the scan disk option and performed a thorough scan but again when i run that in the cmd i get the same error . I also did a recovery console where it said that windows has fixed one or more errors but still the problem persisits.
I had something happen to my computer after I did a �CHKDSK /f /r�. When I went to use excel, and clicked on my tab key, the cursor went backwards. Then I tried to select a file and it would not let me select one file, it hi-lighted all the files. I finally closed out excel and tried to restore my computer to an earlier time thinking I got a virus. I did not open any e-mails that day, and it was running ok the night before. The restore froze and would not work. I just shut down my computer at the master switch and re-booted. Everything was ok after that. Excel worked fine, and all was good. I ran my AVG virus program to check for a virus, it found nothing. I thought it was a coincidence that this happened after the CHKDSK /f /r parms. Does anyone know what happened? The reason I did a CHKDSK /f /r was my Perfect Disk program did not defrag completely and the vendor told me to do this to do an offline defrag. I tried an offline defrag before, but I got errors on my drive and could not do it, that�s why they told me to use the CHHDSK /f /r. Also, is there anyway that I can put something in my restore to not let �ANY� virus come in so I can restore in case I got a virus? I use xp professional
I recently had a virus and have an error of "Unmountable Boot Volume" when starting my computer. I googled it and found out that if I type in "Chkdsk /r" Into the recovery console it will fix it. But I was unable to find out whether chkdsk /r effects any of my files on the computer. Will this delete them or keep them untouched? Or is there any other way to fix my problem without losing my files?
I have been running chkdsk /f and it continues to find errors, should I keep running it until it reports no more errors? I am doing this to try to speed up the computer it is an older pc that runs very slow.
i am just usin xp again after a long break and have forgotten how to run chkdsk doh i used to right click on something and tick both boxes? what is it i do?
I am unable to clean up my C drive and when trying to run the defrag program I keep getting the message "Disk defragmentor has detected that Checkdisk is due to run on the volume HP Pavillion C: run Chkdsk /f. " However when I type that into the command box I get the message "chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process" It then asks if I want to run it at next startup but this makes no difference and so groundhog day begins.
Since running CHKDSK on my XPSP2 PC, it keeps starting up with a CHKDSK run. After completion I get a normal Windows startup and perfect running. Is there something that causes this behaviour and can this CHKDSK be skipped?
I have a dual boot system; XP and W2000. I am having a problem with the XP drive (D. The system would not boot up in XP, I would get a blue screen that flashed on and off so quickly that I could not read it. I did see chkdsk and virus. Since the drive was recently scanned for viruses and I had recently installed a DVD-RW drive, I tried to chkdsk. Windows 2000 (C worked properly and I was able to run chkdsk / f on the C: drive and the extended drives. The D: drive and its extended drives did not appear in My Computer so I could not chkdsk. Finally, I was able to boot the D: drive in safe mode and ran chkdsk. The process did not complete, after about 9% it would restart. Since the D: drive now appears in My Computer in W2000 I ran chkdsk /f on the drive and got the following message: "Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Chkdsk may run if this volume is dismounted first. ALL OPEN HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID. Would you like to force a dismount on this volume" This reads as something I want to do, but I don't have a clue.
When I set chkdsk to run on next boot, and it finds a bunch of stuff wrong, what is the log file where I can see what it found/repaired? I see .evt and .edb, but they are still in use, so must not be the ones.
BlankFor some reason, my daughter's computer ALWAYS runs chkdsk on startup every day. It normally finds nothing wrong, which makes me think that she has turned on a switch somewhere to perform this task daily. She is running XP Pro with a FAT32 (!!!) file system.
