Why would windows be unable to complete disk check?

[human_male]

Hi there. I have Win XP and my hard drive is partitioned with a C and D. I do a disk check on C and it tells me I need to reboot to complete the check so I do that and it scans the drive and all is well. But I try to do the same with D and it starts the check then after a few seconds stops with an error message saying Windows was unable to complete the disk check.

Would anyone know why not, or what the problem might be?

Ta very much.

 

[Anachron]

Probably a problem with the file or directory structure on your D drive.

Before you do anything else, back up anything on the D drive you don't want to lose.

Then, try a more advanced utility like Norton to scan the disk.

 

[Weird Harold]

Hi there. I have Win XP and my hard drive is partitioned with a C and D. I do a disk check on C and it tells me I need to reboot to complete the check so I do that and it scans the drive and all is well. But I try to do the same with D and it starts the check then after a few seconds stops with an error message saying Windows was unable to complete the disk check.

Would anyone know why not, or what the problem might be?

Ta very much.

Make sure that you have all other programs shut down when running Scandisk -- that includes most of the stuff in your start-up menu.

I'd guess that you have some program running in the background that is keeping a log file on drive D:. Every time it writes something to the log file, scandisk starts over -- after about 10 tries it will give up.

You might also try running your disk maintenance from Safe Mode to make sure that your normal drivers and background programs aren't interfering.

If you have another disk maintenance program like Norton's Disk Doctor use that. If you don't, consider taking it to a computer shop and having them run one of their more detailed disk diagnostic programs on it.

 

[Shoeguy2369]

I know with defragmenting, you need to have enough space on your hard drive to work with. (not sure of the exact amount. I think its related to the size of the drive) but that might have something to do with Scan Disk as well...how full is your D:\ drive?

 

[human_male]

Thanks. I've tried in safe mode, and also my disk is about half full. It's not that it keeps stopping because there's something else running because it stops after about five seconds. Normally, it tells me it will schedule a disk check for the next time I reboot. That's what C does. Why doesn't D do that?

I don't have disk doctor or anything, I guess I'll have to take it in.

Cheers.

 

[rthnck]

recguard?

If msconfig shows that "recguard" is running this could be the issue.

http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/recguard/

D could be the recovery partition and recguard won't let scandisk touch the recovery partition.....If it is recguard, I would leave D alone.....

 

[Bert Notorius]

Did you try checking "automatically fix errors"? Sometimes that will work through a file or directory issue.

 

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