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I've been getting this 'blue screen' at start-up telling me that a volumn has to be checked for consistency the volumn is NTFS and I have 10 seconds to hit any key to cancel. I do and Windows starts up. Today I tried to defrag and I got the screen posted. I ran the Chkdsk /f. (there is no such animal on my machine so it couldn't be found. So I went to Windows/System 32/CHKDSK and ran a check from there. The prompt said it couldn't find drive f so it ran as 'read only', all 3 steps and removed something in stage 2. Then I inserted a flash stick, which becomes 'f' and ran Chkdsk /f. The prompt popped on and off in a milisecond. ( I suppose that was the Chk. Tried to defrag again, same message. Restarted, same message, restarted in 'safe mode', same message. I downloaded a defrag utility SO I'LL TRY THAT.... Any advice...anyone?
 
Try restoring windows with the origonal boot CD. That usually does the trick and shouldn't wipe out your hd.

Take Care,

- Al
 
ronmatt ... re chkdsk/f .... the /f part is a 'task/direction/command/instruction' (.. 'yep, check the disk [chdsk], but while you're doing that fix the problems [/f] " .. :) .... am not sure what the proper 'computer speak' is for it that's why I gave the 4 explanatory words ... anyhow this link http://www.ss64.com/nt/chkdsk.html will explain it better and give you 'the bigger picture' about /f and more regarding chkdsk .... hope that helps .... I have also posted image below of google search result which found ss64 and more stuff that you might find helpful ... regards namvet
 
ronmatt said:
and I have 10 seconds to hit any key to cancel. I do and Windows starts up.
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If you press a key when that message appears you actually cancel the chkdsk.?
 
I do press a key and it does disappear. I don't want it to show up, because it's telling me that something is askew internally and then there's the question of the message when I try to defrag. I downloaded 'Perfect disk' which took care of the defrag issue. I simply want to fix the problem
 
ronmatt said:
I do press a key and it does disappear. I don't want it to show up, because it's telling me that something is askew internally
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I don't think I expressed myself well. The point is that you should not press that key when you get that message during boot, because you should give it time to actually check your disk. Only during boot time the system will have full control to do a complete scan, the scan that is needed to get rid of that message when you want to defrag.
 
I have. It goes through the stage 1 scan, blinks off, another blue screen with guite a bit of info on it flashes on and off, too quickly to read. Then the machine recycles and I go through the whole thing again. I suppose I could do that all day. So I hit the key ( F, I guess you can figure out why ).
 
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