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"cannot open volume for direct access" - error message re chkd
Conley Con...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista performance_maintenance Thanks for coming up with the article. I then tried running chkdsk with various combinations of /f, /r and /x, and I got the following results: /f No text screen came up /r The screen with the error message re "direct

Weird CHKDSK Output?
Chris Morris ChrisMor...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general Heres what I found: Windows folder: Size: 7.65 GB (8220489748 bytes) Size on Disk: 7.72 GB Run chkdsk c: at a command prompt. Look at the chkdsk results (2nd line down) & it will say something like "abc KB in xyz files".

Control panel applet & chkdisk log
When I tried to use it in Vista, Vista rejected the program. A display popped up saying the program could not be installed (or used, I don't recall which) in Vista. I also used this program to scan the surface of both drives and the results were both drives were good; no bad sectors were found.

Capturing chkdsk results
Open an elevated command prompt and run bcdedit /enum and check the boot path for Vista. It should not contain any reference to ntldr. If you are unsure of what you are looking at/for, copy paste the results into a response. Either that or the system BIOS has the mbr locked (boot time protection) and is not

Vista Partitions... won't change...
... microsoft public windows 64bit general On second thought, if PerfectDisk does a defrag with the dirty disk flag set, I'm not sure I would trust the results. On system reboot, chkdsk begins on volume c Then within seconds fails with the line: "cannot open volume for Disk Access" Vista boots to the login.

Dim Vista
Ajagun Aja...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general Thanks very much for all the help Bye "Rick Rogers" wrote: Hi, Sorry, but no. Check these for the chkdsk results. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help

Vista Eats Up All My Hard Drive Space...
System Restore is still not working from within Vista Ultimate, but I have, at all times, been able to run System Restore and Complete PC Restore from the I then tried running chkdsk with various combinations of /f, /r and /x, and I got the following results: /f No text screen came up /r The screen with the

Sysprep'd Image Hangs when Deploying on Certain Hardware
Thomas Veik inva...@invalid.invalid microsoft public windows vista general I know that if you run chkdsk on a non operating system drive, it will run within windows and you can see the results in the event log. But when you run chkdsk on the OS drive, you have to do it with a restart and the results aren't saved in

Vista Eats Up All My Hard Drive Space...
I have Vista Ultimate and have tried rescheduling by right clicking the C drive and tools method and via the chkdsk/f method and disk check utility never executes. I also tried disabling my virus checker, AVG Free, but achieve the same results. -- Thanks> > Hi Dar, See the NOTE at the top, and see if trying Method

Windows Defender full scan gets stuck
R. McCarty PcEngWork-NoSp...@mindspring.com microsoft public windows vista general One sort of diagnostic procedure is to determine where the majority of the used space is located. Run chkdsk c: at a command prompt. Look at the chkdsk results (2nd line down) & it will say something like "abc KB in xyz files".

Vista Eats Up All My Hard Drive Space...
Richard noem...@thisaddress.com microsoft public windows vista general Is system restore switched on or off? I choose to have it switched off, but I find it still creates restore Run chkdsk c: at a command prompt. Look at the chkdsk results (2nd line down) & it will say something like "abc KB in xyz files".

Weird CHKDSK Output?
Anyway, I typed in the error and found a KB article relating to using older versions of Windows (multi boot) with Windows Vista. People tried Repair installs, Chkdsk /p Fixboot and fixmbr with a mixed bag of results. Some posters even suggested reformatting the drive to Fat32 (which I'm not about to do.

Control panel applet & chkdisk log
Thomas Veik inva...@invalid.invalid microsoft public windows vista general On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 23:26:50 -0500, "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <andre...@hotmail.com> wrote: It's located in Event Viewer -> windows protocols -> application, item "wininit" and click on it to view ..or doubler click it to bring another

chk disk utility won't work
Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin] andre...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista general Great -- Andre Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com My Vista Quickstart Guide: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry "Thomas Veik" <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message

Vista chkdsk
After running that I _could_ mount the partition, but with the following results: debian:~# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt debian:~# ls /mnt ls: reading directory /mnt: Run chkdsk and mount in Windows. NTFS-fs error (device sda1): ntfs_check_logfile(): Did not find any restart pages in $LogFile and it was not empty.

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Maverick S...@mustang.org comp sys mac advocacy TheLetterK wrote: How is chkdsk to determine this? Do you really want Microsoft arbitrarily deciding what data can and cannot be salvaged? By the way, why don't you explain how fsck handles this? It is done automatically and I never get to see the results of any mess.

Windows XP Professional Edition fails to update SP2
Conley Con...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista performance_maintenance I finally discovered that the source of my problems with chkdsk I then tried running chkdsk with various combinations of /f, /r and /x, and I got the following results: /f No text screen came up /r The screen with the

Vista Eats Up All My Hard Drive Space...
Richard Urban richardurbanREMOVET...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista file_management For chkdsk results you have to look in the event viewer for all entries under Window logs | Application and then filter for chkdsk -- Regards, Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User (For email, remove the obvious

checksum errors reading data from network share
dean-dean dean-d...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista security With regards to chkdsk, you can run the tool by opening Computer, right-clicking on the drive you I would always start with a quick scan - if it gives you a clean bill of health, you can be pretty confident in the results.

"cannot open volume for direct access" - error message re chkd
TheLetterK n...@none.net comp sys mac advocacy Maverick wrote: TheLetterK wrote: Maverick wrote: TheLetterK wrote: How is chkdsk to determine this? It is done automatically and I never get to see the results of any mess. It doesn't *arbitrarily delete files that it considers corrupted*, though.