for some reason that is totally beyond me, chkdsk will not perform scheduled
disk checks on one of my disk drives.

I have 2 drives: C: (internal) and J: (external USB) (there are reasons for
this, I promise). Scheduling a chkdsk on C: works every time. Scheduling one
on J: never works.



I booted up in safe mode to avoid J: being opened, and managed to run
chkdsk. It found a cross linked file, but it does /not/ say what either of
the files in question was. Which is really unhelpful, because at least one of
the 2 files will be corrupt at this point, and possibly both of them, and it
would sort of be nice to know which!

Originally Posted by ThosRTanner

for some reason that is totally beyond me, chkdsk will not perform scheduled
disk checks on one of my disk drives.

I have 2 drives: C: (internal) and J: (external USB) (there are reasons for
this, I promise). Scheduling a chkdsk on C: works every time. Scheduling one
on J: never works.

I booted up in safe mode to avoid J: being opened, and managed to run
chkdsk. It found a cross linked file, but it does /not/ say what either of
the files in question was. Which is really unhelpful, because at least one of
the 2 files will be corrupt at this point, and possibly both of them, and it
would sort of be nice to know which!

Forgive my ignorance, as far as I know , Vista does not have chhdsk schedule option. Is it a 3rd party program you downloaded somewhere ? Thank you.