What would keep a hard drive disk check from completing? I don't know what to begin to look at to handle this one. Ideas?

Are you referring to XP's Check Disk? Or some other application? Are you doing the following?


Running Check Disk:

start Run... cmd

Type:

chkdsk /f

When asked if you want to run on next boot? Y or N?

Type: Y

And reboot,

This will check for and fix any hard disk errors.


The active XP partition can only be checked outside of Windows. Thus the above schedules a check on boot prior to Windows loading. If you are Checking a multiple partition drive from within Windows containing the Operating System the Operating System partition would stop the check.

Originally Posted by jephree

Are you referring to XP's Check Disk? Or some other application? Are you doing the following?


Running Check Disk:

start Run... cmd

Type:

chkdsk /f

When asked if you want to run on next boot? Y or N?

Type: Y

And reboot,

This will check for and fix any hard disk errors.


The active XP partition can only be checked outside of Windows. Thus the above schedules a check on boot prior to Windows loading. If you are Checking a multiple partition drive from within Windows containing the Operating System the Operating System partition would stop the check.

was just trying to scan the disk for errors. Got a sign saying it could not complete the scan. What makes that happen?

Did you run chkdsk /f?

Or are you running from within XP?

You cannot check a disk which contains XP (usually C: ) from within XP. You need to run chkdsk /f on a reboot.

If you are trying to check a disk other than C: then I'd suggest also trying chkdsk.

For example if you want to check E: type the command chkdsk e: /f