Rock said:
Jim said:
Rock wrote:
Every time I start up Vista Ultimate, chkdsk is ran but finished at
28% during stage 2 of 3. Anyway to check the disk to get rid of this
disk check?
Try running chkdsk from safe mode.
From an elevated command prompt give this command
fsutil dirty query C: [Replace C with the letter for the drive.]
Enter
Does it show if the drive is dirty?
Download a drive diagnostic utility from the hard drive manufacturer's
web site. That will create a bootable floppy or CD. Run the
diagnostics from there.
I believe the problem is not with the drive itself but rather some files
are corrupted and chkdsk is not able to fix...
Ok, what about the answers to the questions? Is the dirty bit set?
Yes, fsutil shows the drive is "dirty"
Did
you run diagnostics on the drive?
Yes, diag tool from Seagate shows the drive is fine.
What I did to get rid of the "dirty bit":
1) boot into WinXP. I dual boot winxp and vista with boot-us
(
www.boot-us.com). With boot-us, my xp and vista does not have access to
each other's files and each os' boot up files are located at their
respective partition.
2) delete vista partition
3) crate a new partition at the vista partition location but specified a
smaller partition size using Acronis Disk Director
4) format new partition and verify the partition is not "dirty"
5) delete the newly created partition
6) restore vista backup image using Acronis True Image.
7) Boot up Vista and no prompt is made to perform chkdsk.