Chkdsk /f is driving me batty: Hard Drive Problems

Hi,

I am having problems with my hard drive D: in the Sager 9860 I purchased from PC Torque in February.

My computer keeps running chkdsk /f on that drive every time it starts, but seems to find nothing wrong. On one site, I found these directions to fix it:

"First click Start> Run> bring up a command prompt by typing in "CMD" and type " fsutil dirty query d: ". This queries the drive, and more than likely it will tell you that it is dirty. Next, type "CHKNTFS /X D:". The X tells Windows to NOT check that particular drive on the next reboot. At this time, manually reboot your computer, it should not do a Chkdsk and take you directly to Windows.

"Once Windows has fully loaded, bring up another CMD prompt and type and now you want to do a Chkdsk manually by typing "Chkdsk /f /r d:". This should take you through 5 stages of the scan and will unset that dirty bit. Finally, type "fsutil dirty query d:" and Windows will confirm that the dirty bit is not set on that drive. Good"

However, when I reach that last step, it still tells me my drive is dirty.

When I try to defrag that drive, I get a message that something else is using that drive, and that chkdsk f/ is scheduled, and to run that first. Running it never changes the issue.

So, I decided I would just reformat the whole drive, but when I try to reformat, I get the same messages as when I try to defrag.

I had hoped to fix it instead of changing out the hard drive, because that means mailing it back and doing without something I am going to *really* need during the next month.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Sherri S.

No, I haven't tried that.

Will it format both C: and D: drives if I remove the partitions?

If at all possible, I would like to leave c: alone, but it might be my only option at this point.

Thank you for the help. It is greatly appreciated.

Thank you for the answers. After spending $4200 on the laptop, I can't get a new external hard drive to do a backup in order to try reformatting. It will need to wait a few months.

The other problem I am having is with both the DVD Rom and the CD ROm. Both drives click when I play anything, but I can play MP3s that are already on the drive without a problem. If I play an audio CD, the longer it goes, the worse it clicks, and we cannot even get through one disk. Those same disks will play perfectly in my car, or in our PS2, and even in my son's $19.00 cheapo player, but I cannot play it in my monster machine.

This is so disappointing. I will let you kow how it goes in a few months.

Thank you...that worked well. I am sure this is probably something simple, and I certainly didn't mean to sound so negative. I am disappointed because of these silly problems that will probably turn out to be simple, but I do love my laptop and am very glad I bought it.

~gives it a nice rubbing by the touchpad, to soothe her unintended insult away~

I have someone coming over this evening to help, and he said he had the CD clicking problem before he defragmented a drive once, so it is probably just that I need to get this drive sorted out and reformatted.

You are all so nice!

Sherri S.

Thank you...I will do that.

Because it is happening with both the DVD/RW drive and the CD/RW drive, not just one of them, I thought perhaps it might be a different issue. I really hope they are not both bad. I know Sager will take care of it, but I am such a weenie when it comes to doing without my computer. I'll whine every day I cannot use it.

But, we will see how it goes, and I am keeping my fingers crossed!

Sherri S.