Disk Error Checker Not Working

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In news:41C7988A-567D-4B17-A0A7-8F4ACA37E9DA@microsoft.com,
Milk-Chan <MilkChan@discussions.microsoft.com> had this to say:

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> Hello!
> When trying to run disk error checker (after restart) I'm receiving
> an error somethign to the effect of: Cannot open volume, disk checker
> stopping.
> I was able to succesfully run the checker before, but not now. Any
> suggestions on how to fix this? Or, what to do next?
> Thanx a million!!

Try this from the command prompt...

chkdsk <drive>: /f /r /x

For instance if it's the C drive you can just ignore the <drive>: part...
But if it's a different drive then chkdsk d: /f /r /x

/r implies /f but use it anyhow... /x will force it to dismount the drive
first.

It should ask you if you want to schedule it for next boot, do so. Reboot.
Get a cup of coffee.

Galen
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with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
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