When chkdsk says it can't lock the drive, it should also give you the option to queue the run for the next time you boot the PC. When you see that prompt, press Y. Go back to the desktop and reboot. chkdsk should run before XP loads again.

Ron

Thanks for the reply.

I did as you suggested and the disk check ran at reboot.

However, if, after that, I run "chkdsk" from start/run or a command window, it still shows a list of errors !

How do I overcome the problem that generates the message "Cannot lock current drive" ???

Thanks

"Cannot lock drive" is just Windows way of saying it can't run chkdsk now. Chkdsk has to have exclusive control of the HD in order to run. As long as XP is running, chkdsk can't have that control. That's why it did run when you rebooted before XP loaded.

Don't know why it's still showing error messages. Perhaps they're the same errors from before, but some list didn't get cleared when chkdsk actually ran. Or maybe they're unfixable, meaning your HD is failing. You might want to post the specific errors for better responses.

Are you actually seeing HD problems? Back up your critical files to CD just in case...

Ron

Message Edited by RoHe on 09-11-2005 10:03 AM