I'm trying to run a disk check on my laptop, but every time I click the check now button it tells me that it can't check the disk drive when it's in use. However, it hasn't stopped being in use for 20 minutes. How can I check the damn thing?
You should run it before you get into Windows.
How?.Sup wrote:
You should run it before you get into Windows.
Try start > run > chkdsk
Start-Run
Type cmd
hit enter.
Once in a command prompt, type:
chkdsk c: /f
hit enter
y
reboot
Type cmd
hit enter.
Once in a command prompt, type:
chkdsk c: /f
hit enter
y
reboot
Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it
Thanks, it looks like I'm finally getting there.
Manual steps to run Chkdsk at the command prompt
1. Click Start, and then Run.
2. In Open, type cmd, and then press ENTER.
3. Use one of the following procedures:
• To run Chkdsk in read-only mode, at the command prompt, type chkdsk, and then press ENTER.
• To repair errors without scanning the volume for bad sectors, at the command prompt, type chkdsk volume:/f, and then press ENTER.
Note If one or more of the files on the hard disk are open, you will receive the following message:
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)
Type Y, and then press ENTER to schedule the disk check, and then restart your computer to start the disk check.
• To repair errors, locate bad sectors, and recover readable information, at the command prompt, type chkdsk volume:/r, and then press ENTER.
Note If one or more of the files on the hard disk are open, you will receive the following message:
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)
Type Y, and then press ENTER to schedule the disk check, and then restart your computer to start the disk check.
Yep, all done. Thanks.
huzah!
It is still in use because Windows is still running, it cannot check the disk that Windows is on until you restart if you are trying to Automatically Fix File System Errors.
If you've got a floppy drive, you may also want to look at hitachi drive fitness test - it doesn't work with all HDDs/controllers, but you boot to the floppy and it runs before anything else has access to the HDD, so it can do a much better job of checking disk integrity (when it works with your hardware).