Vista Tutorial - Check Disk - chkdsk

Lastride,

It sounds like it may be beyond normal repair. Other than doing a clean reinstall, you might try doing a repair (upgrade) install to see if it can fix the problem for you. This tutorial will show you how to. Be sure to backup anything you do not want to lose to be safe.

Repair Install For Vista

Hope this helps,
Shawn

i hate windows vista, it is the same case for me, everytime i start the computer a new corrupted file is detected from a new program, i have tried the three methods like both of you and the same result (67% for sfc/scannow and an error message). Now i have a new problem, my computer restarts alone every 15 mn, i don't understand why. Does anyone have any idea ????

Hi Himcals,

Like the others with the same problem as you, it sounds like it may be beyond normal repair.

Other than doing a clean reinstall, you might try doing a repair (upgrade) install to see if it can fix the problem for you. This tutorial will show you how to. Be sure to backup anything you do not want to lose to be safe.

Repair Install For Vista

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Be careful of the clean install though, I did it and it doesnt reinstall the drivers. I had to contact Gateway to send me the disk and now I am sitting waiting for the disk so I can have my cpu back to normal. How can Windows go to a successful OS like XP, and have so many problems with Vista??

i wrote down chkdsk /i and i got at the bottom of the message:

Errors found Chkdsk cannot continue in a read only mode

Hi Chillo, and welcome to Vista Forums.

To run a full chkdsk, you should use the command chkdsk /f instead. The chkdsk /i will only check the Search Index files.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

when I try to run chkdsk from the recovery console (drive X, in my case), it tells me i need to dismount C: before it can run. Is that a good idea? what does it mean when it says it will disable all handles or something like that?
Also, even when i run cmd using administrator privileges, it tells me there's an Access Denied error when i try to set the C: drive as dirty. any idea why?
Thanks in advance.

Hello Respongen, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You are getting the error because the drive is mounted. It depends on how you are using your C: drive if it is safe or not. Read this from Microsoft about mounted drives. If you are not using your drive for this type of purpose, then it is perfectly fine to dismount the C: drive and run to run chkdsk. If you are, then it will tell you how to mount the drive again afterwards if you still wanted it to be.

Windows Vista Help: Mount or dismount a drive

Hope this helps,
Shawn

I have gone through all the steps from downloads to permission issues in effort to get check disk to run, and it MAY actually be running now but the screen is black. Has anyone else had this issue? I restarted it once and it will restart, so I suspect it is the check disk running, but why the black screen???

Hello Sherri,

If you have changed your default boot screen to something else, then you would see a blank black screen when you are trying to run something like chkdsk at startup. If you did, then you can just change the boot screen back to the default one temporarily until your done with chkdsk.

Boot screen

Hope this helps,
Shawn