Can't defrag my E drive, help!!!

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My Hardware configuration as follow

Intel P4 2.4C @ 3.3Gh
Asus P4P800 Deluxe (BIOS 1012
1GB OCZ PC3500 Dual Channel (2x512MB) Platinum Limited Edition (BH-5
ATI 9800 Pr

2 x Raptor 36.7GB RAID 0 (System Drive) C:2 x Seagate 120G 8M cache RAID 0 (Storage Drive) E:1 x Seagate 80G 2M cache (Main storage) D
Recently, I installed the Norton Ghost to Ghost my C drive to E drive. After it finished and restarted the computer the chkdsk started to check my E:\ drive...before actaully loaded to Windows XP Pr
I left it to finish. Then, I tried to defrag all of my HDD for better performance. I analyzed both of my C drive and D drive, then I tried to analyze my E drive, it said the chkdsk was running and couldn't analyze that drive. It also told me to run chkdsk /f to terminate the chkdsk process. I did that but it didn't help. Then, I restarted the computer and went to safe mode with command prompt only. I tried that command again, same thing. I restarted the computer and found the chkdsk was going to check my E:\ drive again. I was sad, and I skipped it, thinking it would just terminate the chkdsk process. However, I tried to run the defragmentor and analyze my E drive, same thing. I ran out of ideas..

Can someone please help me? Thank you very much!!

John
 
I've just had this same problem! Bugger ain't it? :)

The thing to do is to right click on the drive that you want to fix, then
choose Properties/Tools. This tab has a number of options available, you
want the first one, Error-Checking. Click on Check Now. A dialogue box will
now open, you should check the two tick-boxes and then click Start. The
disk will now check your disks. Your computer may have to be restarted to
do this. Go away and make a cup of tea, make several cups of tea - in fact,
go to china and pick the tea yourself, it maybe a long process. To fully
check the drives, WinXP goes through 5 steps - steps 1 through 3 are fairly
quick, but step 4 is long and step 5 is loooooong! You may have to do this
a whole process a couple of times!

To make sure that the error check has been successful, open a Command Prompt
(Start/All Programs/Accessories/Command Prompt) and type chkntfs e:, if you
want to check the e: drive. Once you hit <Return>, A message will be
displayed that will tell you the type of the file system, plus either "E: is
not dirty", or "E: is dirty." If the message tells you that "E: is not
dirty", then the errors in the drive have been fixed, if you are told that
the drive is still dirty, you will have to do the error fixing routine
again. Note, that even if you are told that your drive is not dirty, you
may have to error fix it again at random periods for a few days before all
the errors are finally and completely ironed out.

Good Luck - Hope this helps!

--
Bad Head ;)
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System Specs:
OS: Windows XP Pro SP1
RAM: 1GB DDR400
CPU: AMD 2500+
Chipset: VIA (4-in-1 Driver: 4.49)
Main Board: Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394 (BIOS F4)
Graphics: Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800Pro (Catalyst 4.30)
John said:
My Hardware configuration as follow:

Intel P4 2.4C @ 3.3Ghz
Asus P4P800 Deluxe (BIOS 1012)
1GB OCZ PC3500 Dual Channel (2x512MB) Platinum Limited Edition (BH-5)
ATI 9800 Pro

2 x Raptor 36.7GB RAID 0 (System Drive) C:2 x Seagate 120G 8M cache RAID 0
Click to expand...
(Storage Drive) E:1 x Seagate 80G 2M cache (Main storage) D:
Recently, I installed the Norton Ghost to Ghost my C drive to E drive.
Click to expand...
After it finished and restarted the computer the chkdsk started to check my
E:\ drive...before actaully loaded to Windows XP Pro
I left it to finish. Then, I tried to defrag all of my HDD for better
Click to expand...
performance. I analyzed both of my C drive and D drive, then I tried to
analyze my E drive, it said the chkdsk was running and couldn't analyze that
drive. It also told me to run chkdsk /f to terminate the chkdsk process. I
did that but it didn't help. Then, I restarted the computer and went to safe
mode with command prompt only. I tried that command again, same thing. I
restarted the computer and found the chkdsk was going to check my E:\ drive
again. I was sad, and I skipped it, thinking it would just terminate the
chkdsk process. However, I tried to run the defragmentor and analyze my E
drive, same thing. I ran out of ideas...
 
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