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Vista - Repost: Chkdsk: Cannot open volume for direct access

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Old 08-14-2007   #1 (permalink)
Kevin Cochran


 
 

Repost: Chkdsk: Cannot open volume for direct access

Greetings,

On Vista Home Premium, when the trying to run chkdsk from boot, the
following error comes up:

Checking file system on C:
Type of the file system is NTFS
Cannot open volume for direct access

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Kevin


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