Chkdsk at startup not solving hard disk problem

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It could be an idea to download, from the manufacturer of your harddisk (
maxtor or western digital for example ), the diagnostic utility to check the
harddisk. These utilities sometimes allow you to repair aswell or do a low
level format.
Keep in mind though to backup essential data before executing any task from
within those utilities.
The quicker you do the test, the better ( meaning if harddisk has
non-repairable errors you maybe still could use warranty ).

Maxtor's utility needs to be booted up from cd or floppy , assume that
applies to other utilities aswell...

greets Johan


"Brother Brock" <Nobodyknows@unknown.com> wrote in message
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> Even after scheduling `Chkdsk C: /f /r /v' to run in the system startup,
> the
> 'errors in the Volume bit map' comes back. The Startup Chkdsk clears the
> error but after booting something creates the error again. I am using
> Norton
> Disk Doctor for the Disk checking.
>
> My System 1Mhz, 256mb Ram,WindowsXP Pro SP2, ZoneAlarm Free version
> 5.5.094.000, Perfect Disk Defragmenter version 7 etc. Even without running
> the PD defragmenter to re-arrange files error appears. Any solution to
> clear
> this error?
> Thanks for any help & replies.
>
> Brother Brock
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Brother Brock wrote:

> Even after scheduling `Chkdsk C: /f /r /v' to run in the system startup, the
> 'errors in the Volume bit map' comes back. The Startup Chkdsk clears the
> error but after booting something creates the error again. I am using Norton
> Disk Doctor for the Disk checking.
>
> My System 1Mhz, 256mb Ram,WindowsXP Pro SP2, ZoneAlarm Free version
> 5.5.094.000, Perfect Disk Defragmenter version 7 etc. Even without running
> the PD defragmenter to re-arrange files error appears. Any solution to clear
> this error?
> Thanks for any help & replies.
>
> Brother Brock

Do CHKDSK /F twice without using NDD between. If there are no errors
reported by CHKDSK the 2nd time then the problem is with NDD.

Steve

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NDD (as of 2003) is just a GUI shell for the chkdsk command, and not a
very good one; if often mis-parses the chkdsk messages and reports an
error that is not real (especially in the security descriptors section it
seems). So, don't trust it.