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Dear All,
I am flummoxed and horrified! My machine is short of four months old;
I'm running Windows XP Home. I have run chkdsk c: /r a few times. No
problems.
When I last ran it, I had to reboot a second time before chkdsk would
start; I htought little of it.
Today, I rebooted four times, and still it wouldn't run; instead I got
a four-line error message. It looked very much like this:
Cannot open volume for direct access.
The type of the file system is NTFS.
IFSUTIL: Can't open drive. Status returned = c0000043.
Windows has finished checking the disk.
(I'm not sure the thrid line is exactly the same, but the rest is.)
I used Help And Support to search, and found a singularly unhelpful
article, I couldn't see the article number, but was prompted to save
it as a Help and Suipport Favorite, which I did. Then I got onto
Google,and from there, went to the MIcrosoft Knowledge Base, and found
this inane, seemingly (to me) insane, article!
Here's the URL for the article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823439&Product=winxp
I found out it's #832439. It's dated 8/14/2003. Gosh! That's a while
ago! MIcrosoft has provided no solution since then?
How can I check my drive c:? I had just run chkdsk d: /r (my second
hard drive), without difficulties. (Microsoft says this is a known
problem with XP Home and XP Pro. But seems to do nothing about it!)
I did try suggested solutions given for Windows NT, but they didn't
make any difference. I took careful notes about what, in Local
Services, I changed from Automatic to Manual; then I changed them back
again to what they were before. I haven't installed any new programs
that I'm aware of that might have changed how my machine behaves, with
one single exception; that's the one at www.grc.com that disables
Universal Plug N Play (it closes port 5000, and I understand that's a
NETWORK component of Plug N Play; my local Plug N Play continues to
work without a hitch; I'm not on any network, and my network
capability, on the motherboard, is disabled. I'm sure I've run chkdsk
at least 8 times since I got the machine.)
Hmm. Can I run just "chkdsk c:" without the /r switch, and get a
report of some kind? I've tried to find out how to get chkdsk d: /r to
deliver a report I can examine, but can't find any! My Event Logs will
show a report on chkdsk c: /r - after chkdsk-initiated reboot, under
Application, if I right-click and select Properties, on "WinLogon."
Anyway, what can I do to make sure my disk is okay? I'm usng NTFS, and
the power went off last week for a second or so; my machine rebooted,
and I didn't run chkdsk then because I was waiting for a respons from
my dealer (which never came; well; it was the weekend).
Almali del Benian
Dear All,
I am flummoxed and horrified! My machine is short of four months old;
I'm running Windows XP Home. I have run chkdsk c: /r a few times. No
problems.
When I last ran it, I had to reboot a second time before chkdsk would
start; I htought little of it.
Today, I rebooted four times, and still it wouldn't run; instead I got
a four-line error message. It looked very much like this:
Cannot open volume for direct access.
The type of the file system is NTFS.
IFSUTIL: Can't open drive. Status returned = c0000043.
Windows has finished checking the disk.
(I'm not sure the thrid line is exactly the same, but the rest is.)
I used Help And Support to search, and found a singularly unhelpful
article, I couldn't see the article number, but was prompted to save
it as a Help and Suipport Favorite, which I did. Then I got onto
Google,and from there, went to the MIcrosoft Knowledge Base, and found
this inane, seemingly (to me) insane, article!
Here's the URL for the article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823439&Product=winxp
I found out it's #832439. It's dated 8/14/2003. Gosh! That's a while
ago! MIcrosoft has provided no solution since then?
How can I check my drive c:? I had just run chkdsk d: /r (my second
hard drive), without difficulties. (Microsoft says this is a known
problem with XP Home and XP Pro. But seems to do nothing about it!)
I did try suggested solutions given for Windows NT, but they didn't
make any difference. I took careful notes about what, in Local
Services, I changed from Automatic to Manual; then I changed them back
again to what they were before. I haven't installed any new programs
that I'm aware of that might have changed how my machine behaves, with
one single exception; that's the one at www.grc.com that disables
Universal Plug N Play (it closes port 5000, and I understand that's a
NETWORK component of Plug N Play; my local Plug N Play continues to
work without a hitch; I'm not on any network, and my network
capability, on the motherboard, is disabled. I'm sure I've run chkdsk
at least 8 times since I got the machine.)
Hmm. Can I run just "chkdsk c:" without the /r switch, and get a
report of some kind? I've tried to find out how to get chkdsk d: /r to
deliver a report I can examine, but can't find any! My Event Logs will
show a report on chkdsk c: /r - after chkdsk-initiated reboot, under
Application, if I right-click and select Properties, on "WinLogon."
Anyway, what can I do to make sure my disk is okay? I'm usng NTFS, and
the power went off last week for a second or so; my machine rebooted,
and I didn't run chkdsk then because I was waiting for a respons from
my dealer (which never came; well; it was the weekend).
Almali del Benian
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