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More info?)
Picking up on Dave's point what Firewall are you using? If Zone Alarm
what version?
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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"Dave Patrick" <mail@Nospam.DSPatrick.com> wrote in message
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> If you get an error something to the effect "cannot open volume for
> direct
> access" There is some system/boot start device that is reading/writing
> to
> the drive before chkdsk can get a lock on the drive. Some anti-virus
> applications do this.
>
> You can also run
> chkdsk /r
> from the recovery console command line. (/r implies /f and /p)
>
> To start the Recovery Console, start the computer from the Windows XP
> CD-Rom
> Press ENTER at the "Setup Notification" screen. Press R to repair a
> Windows
> XP installation, and then press C to use the Recovery Console. The
> Recovery
> Console then prompts you for the administrator password. If you do
> not have
> the correct password, Recovery Console does not allow access to the
> computer. If an incorrect password is entered three times, the
> Recovery
> Console quits and restarts the computer. Note: If the registry is
> corrupted
> or missing or no valid installations are found, the Recovery Console
> starts
> in the root of the startup volume without requiring a password. You
> cannot
> access any folders, but you can carry out commands such as chkdsk,
> fixboot,
> and fixmbr for limited disk repairs. Once the password has been
> validated,
> you have full access to the Recovery Console, but limited access to
> the hard
> disk. You can only access the following folders on your computer:
> drive
> root, %systemroot% or %windir%
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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>
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>
> "David Gabriel" wrote:
> |I have diskeeper pro for my defrag.
> |
> | I want to run it on a drive, but it keeps telling me that Chkdsk is
> | scheduled to run on the drive and cant defrag.
> |
> | Chkdsk isn't scheduled and I've tried running it to clear the
> problem, but
> | no good.
> |
> | is there a way to clear the drive of chkdsk to that I can defrag it?
> |
> | thanks
> |
> |
> |
> |
>
>
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