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cyrus_daywalker

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March 24th, 2006 01:00

PROBLEM DEFRAGMENTING!

I went to defragment my hard drive this evening, and it popped up with this message:
"Defragmentation of (C:) has been aborted due to inconsistencies that were detected in the filesystem. Please run CHKDSK or SCANDISK on (C:) to repair these inconsistencies, then run Disk Defragmenter again."
 
I went to run scandisk and it said:
"Windows was unable to complete the disk check."
 
Info is Dimension 8200 120G hard drive.
File System NTFS
Drive type?? IC35L 120AWA07-0
 
Can someone tell me what is wrong and what I can do to fix it? Thanks in advance.

MSL

290 Posts

March 24th, 2006 02:00

cyrus_daywalker
 
You won't be able to run scandisk on a drive while it's running the OS. The good news is a duplicate copy of the Master File Table (MFT) is kept on the disk when formatted NTFS. Run check disk (My Computer>Rt click C:\ drive>"Tools" tab>Check Now>select the two check boxes for fix and recover>then "Start"). You will be will be ask if you want to run at next start up. Select Yes, OK, and re-boot.
 
Marc
Dimension 8200: Intel P4 3.06GHz w/HT enabled, AO9 BIOS, 1.5GB PC800 RDRam, Maxtor 300GB, 7200 RPM, 16Mb primary HDD, WD 160GB, 7200 RPM, 8Mb secondary HDD, WD 80GB, 7200RPM, 8Mb USB HDD drive, Dell 1800FP, 128MB ATI Radeon 9700 PRO w/TV out, DUO-Connect 3020 USB2.0/Firewire PCI card, GVC-REALTEK Ethernet 10/100 NIC, Conexant HSF V92 56K Modem, Samsung 16x DVD-ROM, NEC 4x DVD+R/RW CD-RW, TEAC 1.44M 3.5in Floppy, HK 695 Spkrs., Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card, Gyration wireless keyboard and mouse, OfficeXP Pro (added), WindowsXP Pro sp2

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