On 3/29/2011 9:54 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Mike Leone <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yeah, this drive is mostly empty, too, so there's not a boatload of >> files to read through and verify. And it's at the "Checking free space" >> stage now, for 2 hours. So it *should* be done by the time I either go >> to bed, or wake up tomorrow. > > If you're getting "Checking files" and "Checking free space", then > you've run CHKDSK with the /R switch. (Or something else ran it that > way.)
It was probably me. At this point, I don't recall, but I'm pretty sure I checked off "fix" and the 2nd option, when telling it to run CHKDSK. > /R tells CHKDSK to do read verification of the entire > partition. "Checking free space" means it is reading every block on > the LUN that isn't being used for something else. So the fact that > the drive is empty won't help you. ratz. Well, nothing for it now. If it's not done by the time I get there tomorrow morning, I will have to power down the server, un-present the drive from the SAN (so the client doesn't see the drive), and power back up. If I have to re-create that drive tomorrow, so be it. As long as Windows itself is OK, and it *should* be (crossing fingers). ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
