Help with chkdsk

psodanpsodan
edited December 2004 in Hardware
Hello all, I hope this is in the correct place, I'm having a little bit of trouble my computer will restart everynow and again and also will display corrupt file warnings, this happened this morning. My HD has 9 corrupt files which I'm a trying to fix using chkdsk, it picks them up but then says "chkdsk cannot continue in read only mode" I have had a look for a solution but if the truth be told I don't really know what I am doing. Could someone please let me know how to change chkdsk to I presume write mode but I'm not too sure of the implications associated with this. Happy for any advice on the above or a different way of fixing.

Thanks, Dan.

Comments

  • EMTEMT Seattle, WA Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    It sounds like you'll need to run it on startup to check the volume you boot off of. Just run chkdsk [driveletter] /F and if it doesn't start fixing it will ask you to schedule the operation for next startup. You could then reboot immediately if you want.
  • VolvoVolvo Eureka, Ca on the Pacific
    edited December 2004
    If you are running XP go to the run box and enter cmd press enter and you will be at the command prompt.
    type this for c drive
    chkdsk c: /f
    most likely it it won't be able to run until you reboot.
    My Best to you,
    volvo
  • psodanpsodan
    edited December 2004
    Thankyou very much it appears to have fixed itself at startup. :thumbsup:

    Dan.
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