CHKDSK DRIVING ME MAD ....
please help me, pretty pretty please.. *sniff**sniff*
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 by mike b1954 | Discussion: Personal Computing
Just another quickie hopefully ... ( sitting Comfortably ?)
By that , I mean I hope this is resolved pretty sharpish ...
Chapter 1 ... !
Yesterday ,I bought a brand new External Maxtor 500 gb hd for my mate ( birthday treat) ...
Read all instructions .. installed the usb and the transformer supplied ... no probs ... and plugged in and turned on ..
No problems ... found new hardware popup .. installed drivers ...
Rebooted and the new disc showed up in the my Computer page ... all A - OK ...
Formatted the disc no probs .... Checked with Defender , AVG .. Iobit360 Clean as a whistle ...
Copied a few bits and pieces over from his docs and pics to make sure everything is fine ...
It was ....
After this I left him to go home ...
This morning ..I get a call to pop round and I see his PC is running a CHKDSK routine , on his new HD,
and found out it had been doing it for a couple of hours ...
and he still had not seen his logon screen ...
I then held in the main start button on the pc ~ it turned itself off , I waited a couple of minutes ~
and then I hit the On button again ...
Once I did that after a few secs the CHKDSK started to run again on the new HD ..
I pressed "any key" ~ and LO and behold Vista started ...
Chapter 2 ....
So ~ ~
Once again I ran the Defender, Avg etc ... clean as a whistle .. again ... Rebooted ,
~ and the damn CHKDSK started running again by this time I was totally flummoxed ,
as was the birthday boy !
So I tried to find out using the help and support section how to TURN OFF the CHKDSK
function for that drive
and had no luck ..... 
Chapter 3 ... !
Which leads me to the question ....
HOW DO I TURN THE DARN THING OFF SO IT NEVER DOES IT AGAIN .... ? ? 
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Dual-booting Vista Home Premium ~ all Service packs and up to date (new PC) and Windows 7 RC build7100
Intel CoreDuo E4700 at 2,60 Ghz , Nvidia Geforce 9300 GE ...
( Sorry its was long winded Guys and gals , I thought I had better try to explain things as they happened .... )
Mike
(ps sorry for the large font .. I put my spex down somewhere and cant find them ...)
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Reply #3 Tuesday, October 6, 2009 10:48 PM
Thanks Philly !
( hehe .. See if you can find my spex 
)
Reply #4 Tuesday, October 6, 2009 10:55 PM
Did you use a disk defragger to defrag the disc? Thus it failed to run on reboot - like diskeeper maybe?
Even so it or something has set a dirty bit on the drive no matter what you do to it - that is change drive letter or even remove and then place it back. The system see it has adirty bit set for it.
Thus you need to clear that up - so - go to run and type cmd press enter then at the dos command screen type CHKDSK /F C:
C: being whatever the drive letter is set for - you will need to set that correctly. Close the screen and reboot the system. It should work out ok after that.
Oh by the way CHKDSK will not or should not be run on an external drive. This is not always true depending on the system. But in most cases it will happen and CHKDSK will stay there till you shut the machine down and restart the system and then press the bypass key.
Let me know?
Reply #5 Tuesday, October 6, 2009 11:00 PM
Oh I've been there and done that Mike, be very careful where and when you sit down or step even. 
Reply #8 Tuesday, October 6, 2009 11:35 PM
yrag Thanks for Popping in :
Just tried that one .. did a restart ~ No change ....
( forgot to mention the PC has Vista and W7 on C: and D : W7 starts up ok .. Its only the Vista Side with the prob
.. the Maxtor is on usb J: ...Sorry ... )
Now trying a switch off and wait a minute or so , then a switch on .. back in a bit ...
Reply #9 Tuesday, October 6, 2009 11:43 PM
Sorry to keep you waiting ...
No Change with a Switch off and on ...
Reply #10 Tuesday, October 6, 2009 11:48 PM
What file system did you format the external to? Does it boot correctly when the J drive is disconnected?
Reply #11 Tuesday, October 6, 2009 11:49 PM
Ok go to the all programs list and accessories choose the command prompt from there but right click it and run as administrator.
Then type chkntfs /x J: press enter
then type fsutil dirty query J: press enter
if it says the dirty bit is not set for that drive you should be good to go
Reply #12 Tuesday, October 6, 2009 11:50 PM
Running so many security apps could be messing with your drive too. Usually recommended to only have one antivirus and one antispyware app installed (which often are the same app) (though that doesn't mean you need to disable Defender, its pretty harmless.)
Reply #13 Tuesday, October 6, 2009 11:53 PM
Yrag ...NTFS , and yes it boots correctly when J (the Maxtor ) is disconnected ...
Shelby ... Doing now....
and it says Volume J is dirty ...
Reply #14 Wednesday, October 7, 2009 12:01 AM
Format FAT32 (Quick) in the Disk Management Console (either Vista or Win7). Boot into bios: USB Legacy Support: Enabled.
Reply #15 Wednesday, October 7, 2009 12:04 AM
go to the drive in computer and right click it and select properties - then go to tools - then in the error checking box there select check now besure automatically fix is checked for the box there and go start let that run then run the command prompt again with the fsutil dirty query J: - thus what does it say? if it is clear you should be good to go. If not there maybe another problem with a update for Vista. But we will see about that after I know for sure.
Be sure you do this in the Vista OS
Reply #16 Wednesday, October 7, 2009 12:13 AM
yrag .. where do I find the Disk Management Console ,
~ and If I do Format Fat32quick will I lose what is on the Maxtor ?
Shelby ..doing ..
Reply #17 Wednesday, October 7, 2009 12:19 AM
yes all data on the drive will be removed if you reformat...
Reply #18 Wednesday, October 7, 2009 12:22 AM
Try Shelbygt's first while you have NTFS format:
Correct commands:
CMD: CHKNTFS /J D:
Reboot
CMD: Chkdsk /f /r d:
On completion: CMD: fsutil dirty query d:
Reply #19 Wednesday, October 7, 2009 12:33 AM
Reboot
CMD: Chkdsk /f /r d:
On completion: CMD: fsutil dirty query d:
????
maybe?
CMD: CHKNTFS /D J:
Reboot
CMD: Chkdsk /f /r J:
On completion: CMD: fsutil dirty query J:
Plus another way is to use safe mode and I think you can run safe mode with a command prompt...
Reply #20 Wednesday, October 7, 2009 12:38 AM
SUCCESS !!!
I got as far as "CMD: CHKNTFS /J D: Reboot "
Turned off completely , Turned back on , and Vista came in as it should ...
and just to make sure Turned off and then back on again ... and Vista came up ...
Thank you ever so much guys ...... I truly appreciate it ...
Now I can get to bed .... I wasnt looking forward to a night of tossing and turning trying to sort this one out ....
Yrag , Shelby ..YO DE MEN , for sure ...
Thanks .. Lots of them .. Kindest Regards ... and goodnight !
Mike
( When all is said and done , I wonder what caused it ... ? )
~ later ... !
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Reply #1 Tuesday, October 6, 2009 10:36 PM
Hi Mike, hold on a sec, I went looking for help for you.