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| Answer» <html><body><p>I am trying to defrag my laptop but I get the message:<br/><br/>“Disk Defragmenter has detected chkdsk is scheduled to run on the volume (C:).<br/>Please run Chkdsk /f”<br/><br/>When I go to the command prompt to run Chkdsk /f I get the message:<br/><br/>“Chkdsk connot run because the volume is in use by another system. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system is restarted (Y/N)”<br/><br/>Selecting yes and on a system <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/restart-622780" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about RESTART">RESTART</a> I get the message:<br/><br/>“Cannot open volume for direct access”<br/><br/>I have tried running from safe mode, but the system won’t boot into safe mode, it stops while loading system drivers.<br/><br/>I have also tried running the defrag.exe but defrag.exe c: only nets me the original message that chkdsk is scheduled to run…<br/><br/>I am sure this is probably an insanely easy thing to get past, but I just don’t know what to do.<br/><br/>So I am stumped I have checked the task scheduler and there is no task scheduled to run chkdsk there, and my laptop which is horrendously slow and in definite need a of a good defrag won’t defrag.<br/><br/>I use McAfee for my firewall and virus protection, and I wonder if it is not trying to also run disk utilities, though I do not see any tasks scheduled there either.<br/><br/>I am using Windows XP media edition as my OS<br/><br/>Any help would be greatly appreciated.<br/><br/>Thanks,<br/><br/>Frank <br/>What items are <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/listed-1075620" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about LISTED">LISTED</a> in Startup ? ?<br/>Boinc manager: which is distributed computing software used to donate your <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/idle-1036473" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about IDLE">IDLE</a> computer time to science projects to predict and design protein structures and protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions.<br/><br/>only runs about 80% of the time.<br/><br/>Winzip. <br/><br/><br/>McAfee Security Center<br/><br/>Install Pending Files.<br/><br/><br/>Sorry for the long delay I have been out of the office for awhile, thank you for the reply.<br/><br/>Disable Boinc<br/>Disable McAffee including email scanning if it's turned on<br/>WinZip also does not need to run at startup <br/><br/>Then try and run chkdsk /r from the Start/Run command prompt...<br/><br/>P.S. You can safely switch off also install pending files....sounds like some Windows updates didn't finish but we need to run chkdsk and defrag first.Thanks again Patio:<br/><br/>I found some information on my problem. Unfortunately it does not look good. Here is a thread I found while searching google....This person pretty much has the exact same problem I do trying to run chkdsk (which seems to be my real problem) <br/><br/><a href="http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum/windows-xp/19442-chkdsk-problems.html">http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum/windows-xp/19442-chkdsk-problems.html</a><br/><br/>for some reason chkdsk can not check the volume of drive C at startup (before windows or any programs are even loaded)<br/>since it can't check the volume it remain checked as needed to be run. since it does not run, defrag can't start because it is waiting for chkdsk to complete.<br/><br/>I am in some kind of borked cycle.<br/><br/>of course I can not find my system CD to see if I can do a repair, but I think that's my next step.Have you tried what was suggested yet and did that produce any results ? ?<br/>Yes, I tried all of them, and a couple others I found on other forums with people with this problem. It looks like I have a corrupted file somewhere. So I get to back up all of my files and do a system re-install. <br/><br/><br/>thank you again Patio.You're more than Welcome...and Welcome to CH !Update:<br/><br/>Well not wanting to do a system <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/reinstall-2983763" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about REINSTALL">REINSTALL</a> (two years worth of work on that laptop), I decided to try something a bit more drastic. <br/><br/>I upgraded the OS to Vista. <br/><br/>I can now defrag the hard drive <br/><br/>The best part is I did not lose any files, so although that fix cost me the price of the Vista upgrade, I am happy I did not have to worry about forgetting something and than losing it.<br/><br/>Love your forum Patio, and thanks for the Auslogics Disk Defrag link. <br/>I let it run over night, there were way too many red boxes for me to wait and watch it. <br/>Good to hear...now would be a good time to start considering a solid backup strategy for your data...you saw how close you came to having <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/nothing-581732" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about NOTHING">NOTHING</a>.<br/></p></body></html> | |