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I just loaded Win XP Pro over XP Home.
I was doing a Defrag on drive E, when it hung up, thrashing the disk. I restarted, but now it always says "Disk Defragmenter has detected that check is scheduled to run on this volume. Please run Chkdsk/f." Well, I've restarted and run Chkdsk 3 times, but I can't clear the message and therefore can't defrag. Suggestions?
Thx.
try booting in safe mode,
check swap file space on drive,
try scandisk first,try chkdsk only, searches /verifys system files, missing or errors
try also sfc/~may need cd to reset files,
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When you instal XP pro over pre-installed Compaq XP Home, you have tasked XP pro the formidible task of managing its own files on the top of another. Does this make sense to you?
i_XpUser
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(Cause I have 2 more to do)
I hope you don't mind my asking what kind of XP Pro CD are you using?
i_XpUser
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XP Pro Update CD.
BTW It appears the problem has been cleared: I went to Partition Magic and ran Chkdsk from there, and now I can can defrag. I don't know why that made the difference, but it ran without /F.
Thanks to everyone who responded.
Incidentally, all my upgrade problems (I have other threads on this incident) are due to not uninstalling Nero before the upgrade.
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As an FYI, did you know that the EULA entitles you to only one product key ID per PC. Do you have three keys altogether?
i_XpUser
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Disabling and Enabling Scandisk and Chkdsk during the boot sequence
Introduction: If you've arrived at this page directly from a link from a search engine or external web site, we recommend that you first familiarize yourself with the problems associated with running Scandisk and Chkdsk. The information below will allow the Windows Scandisk and Chkdsk utilities to be disabled.
Note: Implementation of the information below may require modification of the Windows registry. This can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. There is no guarantee that problems resulting from modifications to the registry can be solved. So you need backup the Windows registry firstly.
Disabling Scandisk - Windows 98 and 98SE
On the toolbar click Start, click Run, type Msconfig, and then click OK. Click Advanced, and select the Disable Scandisk after bad shutdown option.Disabling Scandisk - Windows ME
1. Run the Registry Editor (regedt32.exe)
2. Under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE subtree, go to the following subkey:
\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
3. Change the DisableScandiskOnBoot entry to:
01
(note: using the value 00 will re-enable)
Exit your registry, you may need to restart or log out of Windows for the change to take effect.Disabling Chkdsk - Windows 2000 and XP
1. Run the Registry Editor (regedt32.exe)
2. Under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE subtree, go to the following subkey:
\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager
3. Change the BootExecute entry to:
autocheck autochk *
Exit your registry, you may need to restart or log out of Windows for the change to take effect.
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Thanks, Lukeles!
XPUser: I'm not sure what you mean. This machine originally had Windows ME, then XP Home, and now XP Pro. So?
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