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Old 12-23-2007   #1 (permalink)


Vista Home premium
 
 

chkdsk does not check drive on re-boot

I set chkdsk /f in three three ways but it does not check the drive on reboot; it goes all the way to vista as usual.
a) opened a comand window with admin privileges, run chkdsk /f, tells me that will do it on reboot but does not, b) found chkdsk.exe on explorer, right click on the file, run as admin, same thing, c) on explorer right click on drive c:, properties, click on the button for check disk, same thing.
DID chkdsk with no switches on a command window, it shows corrupted sectors and quits w/o checking all the disk.
DID fsutil dirty query c: and yes, the drive is dirty.
I have a Lenovo 3000 N100, Vista Home Premium, and a C: drive Hitachi ATA. Ir runs very slow but fine otherwise.
What can I do to fix those bad sectors ?
Thanks, Zorzal.

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Old 12-24-2007   #2 (permalink)
Conley


 
 

RE: chkdsk does not check drive on re-boot


Boot from the Vista DVD, go into the repair menu, and run chkdsk from a
command prompt.

"zorzal" wrote:
Quote:

>
> I set chkdsk /f in three three ways but it does not check the drive on
> reboot; it goes all the way to vista as usual.
> a) opened a comand window with admin privileges, run chkdsk /f, tells
> me that will do it on reboot but does not, b) found chkdsk.exe on
> explorer, right click on the file, run as admin, same thing, c) on
> explorer right click on drive c:, properties, click on the button for
> check disk, same thing.
> DID chkdsk with no switches on a command window, it shows corrupted
> sectors and quits w/o checking all the disk.
> DID fsutil dirty query c: and yes, the drive is dirty.
> I have a Lenovo 3000 N100, Vista Home Premium, and a C: drive Hitachi
> ATA. Ir runs very slow but fine otherwise.
> What can I do to fix those bad sectors ?
> Thanks, Zorzal.
>
>
> --
> zorzal
>
> Zorzal.
>
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Old 12-26-2007   #3 (permalink)


Vista Business
 
 

Re: chkdsk does not check drive on re-boot

If this is the only way to perform chkdsk on reboot, I would say this is a regression. But very strange, only Lenovo 3000 N100 causing this issue.

Oshiko

Last edited by oshiko; 12-26-2007 at 04:46 AM..
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Old 01-07-2008   #4 (permalink)


Vista Home Premium 32bit
 
 

Re: chkdsk does not check drive on re-boot

I have the same problem. Chkdsk will not run at boot on a Lenovo 3000 N100 Vista Home Premium. I have not found any solution and Lenovo is no help.
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Old 01-07-2008   #5 (permalink)
Curt


 
 

Re: chkdsk does not check drive on re-boot

Corrupt files - chkdsk utility

Found this on the net. May help, may not.

Curt

"marco" <marco.32u2p0@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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>
> I have the same problem. Chkdsk will not run at boot on a Lenovo 3000
> N100 Vista Home Premium. I have not found any solution and Lenovo is no
> help.
>
>
> --
> marco
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Old 01-11-2008   #6 (permalink)
Not Really Me


 
 

Re: chkdsk does not check drive on re-boot

Same problem on Dell Inspiron.

The solution in my case was to boot from the distribution DVD, select repair
and then when offered, bring up a command prompt.
Chkdsk c: /r ran without problems from the command prompt and didn't require
a reboot until it was complete. Fixed the filesystem problem as expected,
in spite of Dell's suggestion to reformat and start over.

Scott

"marco" <marco.32u2p0@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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Quote:

>
> I have the same problem. Chkdsk will not run at boot on a Lenovo 3000
> N100 Vista Home Premium. I have not found any solution and Lenovo is no
> help.
>
>
> --
> marco

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Old 01-24-2008   #7 (permalink)
Trojanmon


 
 

Re: chkdsk does not check drive on re-boot

I'm having the same problem with the prerelease sp1. Gee, I'm so glad I'm
using Vista, the dos era chkdsk is working better than ever. What a joke.
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Old 01-25-2008   #8 (permalink)
Roberto Baggio


 
 

Re: chkdsk does not check drive on re-boot

FSUTIL.EXE installs with WinXP. If it also installs with Vista, try using
it to set the dirty bit for the volume.

To query whether the dirty bit/flag is set:
FSUTIL dirty query C:

To set the dirty bit/flag:
FSUTIL dirty set C:

"Trojanmon" <Trojanmon@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm having the same problem with the prerelease sp1. Gee, I'm so glad I'm
> using Vista, the dos era chkdsk is working better than ever. What a joke.

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Old 01-25-2008   #9 (permalink)
Trojanmon


 
 

Re: chkdsk does not check drive on re-boot

The bit was set, I confirmed with chkntfs and backup. The problem is simply
that Vista does not start chkntfs on boot time regardless of what you do. I
used my install cd to run from there and all is fine, but this is ridiculous.

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Old 01-29-2008   #10 (permalink)


Vista 32bit
 
 

Re: chkdsk does not check drive on re-boot

I had the same problem, same computer. Just figured this out.

I created a boot disc from lsoft.net since lenovo didn't give me a boot disc. Got the 10 day free trial (which you should buy if this works).

I created a boot disc by following lsoft instructions. then when I restarted my computer using the boot disc it lauched a menu. One menu option (don't remember which) gave me a dos prompt. I then switched to C drive and ran chkdsk /f c:. It told me the drive was locked but gave me the option to dismount the c drive which I did. Chkdsk ran like a champ and fixed my corrupted files. I am now able to run my defrag from diskeeper!

This problem was a royal frustrating pain. Lenovo was no help, but hopefully this works for you.


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