bige420

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Right, so I reformatted my hdd yesterday and everything was going good, running good. So I downloaded all my programs and everything, and I just got around to installing my anti-virus today. So after that I said "hey I should probably defragment, stuff getting kinda slow". So, I went to defragment, hit defragment, and I get this error 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."

What is this? Whats CHKDSK and SCANDISK? What the ****?
 

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They're the same thing, just named different in different OSes. Go to dev mgr, open up disk drives and double-click your harddisk, go to polices, clear both last checkboxes, ok, restart pc.

http://maximumpcguides.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/enable-advanced-performance2.PNG

log in as an admin, start, run, enter

cmd
chkdsk c: /r

Yes to the next question, restart pc, let windows do the scan & repair. Will take a while.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265

After chkdsk, repeat the last step just to make sure. Usually, chkdsk will exit if there's nothing to repair. This time will take a few mins.

Then you can enable write caching on disk in dev mgr, but leave the enable advanced performance cleared just in case. The last one can cause data loss if the pc doesn't shut down proper.
 

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I'm using Windows XP so I dont have those options under policies, its just the top two. Is it really necessary? I see that you were using vista, is everything else the same with XP?
 
Here's the easy way to do it:

My computer-->right click on HD-->properties-->tools-->run error checking.

Click 'yes' to schedule the scan the next time the pc starts. Then restart the pc. It will run the scan upon startup.