Hi all,
I'm having a problem with my notebook, I was hoping someone here had a suggestion for me.
My specs: Dell Inspiron 9300, WinXP Pro, 60GB HTS726060M9AT00 5400RPM, 1 NTFS partion
I've been having some problems with stability. Occasionally I blue screen on power on.
When I log on, I get a little popup warning me I should run chkdsk. Looking in the event viewer I always see a new message like this:
The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume C:.
I've run chkdsk with /x, /f, and /r options, and combinations thereof. I say "yes, schedule chkdsk for next reboot" and I reboot. I've done this a few dozen times, and the chkdsk that runs at boot time always seems to come up clean and never informs me that it fixed my filesystem in any way.
When I run chkdsk, I always get this:
C:\>chkdsk
The type of the file system is NTFS.
WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.
CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is recovering lost files.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.
58597055 KB total disk space.
47305456 KB in 144735 files.
46576 KB in 10006 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
224515 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
11020508 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
14649263 total allocation units on disk.
2755127 allocation units available on disk.
Suggestions short of reformatting my disk are welcome
Edit: Oh, and if anyone can tell me a more appropriate forum to ask this question, that's welcome too
I'm having a problem with my notebook, I was hoping someone here had a suggestion for me.
My specs: Dell Inspiron 9300, WinXP Pro, 60GB HTS726060M9AT00 5400RPM, 1 NTFS partion
I've been having some problems with stability. Occasionally I blue screen on power on.
When I log on, I get a little popup warning me I should run chkdsk. Looking in the event viewer I always see a new message like this:
The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume C:.
I've run chkdsk with /x, /f, and /r options, and combinations thereof. I say "yes, schedule chkdsk for next reboot" and I reboot. I've done this a few dozen times, and the chkdsk that runs at boot time always seems to come up clean and never informs me that it fixed my filesystem in any way.
When I run chkdsk, I always get this:
C:\>chkdsk
The type of the file system is NTFS.
WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.
CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is recovering lost files.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.
58597055 KB total disk space.
47305456 KB in 144735 files.
46576 KB in 10006 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
224515 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
11020508 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
14649263 total allocation units on disk.
2755127 allocation units available on disk.
Suggestions short of reformatting my disk are welcome
Edit: Oh, and if anyone can tell me a more appropriate forum to ask this question, that's welcome too
