Re: [H] Strange CHKDSK problem
Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a test, if anyone who has time would run a chkdsk on their Windows No problems on three boxen here. regards, al
Re: [H] Strange CHKDSK problem
At 09:50 AM 16/10/2007, Joe User wrote: T Wow that is weird. Is there any other issues other then the CHKDSK error? The customer says that he lost his Dragon Naturally Speaking user configuration and was concerned that something in Windows was deleted. I just did some tests on some other computers, and it appears that CHKDSK almost always says there are errors when it is run on the same hard drive that Windows is running from. Why MS would allow a diagnostic tool to be run when it will always give a false positive makes no sense to me, but seems par for their course. I can't find anything confirming this from MS, but I did find some other people with similar problems and this is the conclusion they came to. As a test, if anyone who has time would run a chkdsk on their Windows drive and see if it throws errors of any kind and let me know, I'd appreciate it. T
Re: [H] Strange CHKDSK problem
Evidently it's an MFT error and may not be fixable w/o reformatting. Net is full of people complaining about this error with no fix short of reformatting. Thane Sherrington wrote: I have a computer in (about three months old, running XP Home with a Western Digital 80GB SATA drive and an Asus P5B-VM motherboard.) When I run CHKDSK within Windows, it tells me that Windows has found problems with the bitmap and to run with /f - when I do this and reboot, it runs normally, but the next CHKDSK gives the same error. When I run CHKDSK from within BartPE, it comes up clean. I've tried the following: 1)Updated BIOS 2)Switched from Enhanced to Compatible for SATA in CMOS 3)Cloned to a new drive 4)Ran MSConfig to boot clean 5)Disabled write caching on the HD Same problem each time. There doesn't appear to a newer driver from Intel for the ICH8 SATA controller. Any ideas would be appreciated. T Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC
Re: [H] Strange CHKDSK problem
At 08:55 PM 16/10/2007, j maccraw wrote: Evidently it's an MFT error and may not be fixable w/o reformatting. Net is full of people complaining about this error with no fix short of reformatting. That's not it. The same problem occurs with a different hard drive and a fresh install of Windows. It appears that chkdsk doesn't work properly when run on the drive that hold Windows. T
RE: [H] Strange CHKDSK problem
Chkdsk never runs correctly on a disk it doesn't have excusive access to, that's why it has the /X command line option which for the boot disk means it does the check on startup. Eli -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 8:20 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Strange CHKDSK problem At 08:55 PM 16/10/2007, j maccraw wrote: Evidently it's an MFT error and may not be fixable w/o reformatting. Net is full of people complaining about this error with no fix short of reformatting. That's not it. The same problem occurs with a different hard drive and a fresh install of Windows. It appears that chkdsk doesn't work properly when run on the drive that hold Windows. T
