re: Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems'
Thursday, July 10, 2003 at 6:36 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Gordon
(1 messages posted)
You said:
>Use this solution at your own risk!
Well, I just discovered this forum. I, like many others, have had an XP for about
a year now, Norton SoftWork (recently upgrading to 2003), etc etc and get those same
errors showing up. What's the risk if I don't?
On Wednesday, July 9, 2003 at 6:28 pm, Keith wrote:
>Chkdsk errors – file system errors, problems with the volume bitmap, etc…
>
>Symptom: chkdsk /f will not fix the errors.
>
>
>My Solution: (It took me days to figure this out. HP could not provide a solution
>and I could not find one on the Windows website….
>
>Use this solution at your own risk!
>
>Double click “My Computer”
>
>Right click on C: (local disk) and then select properties
>
>Uncheck the box at the bottom where it says allow indexing service to index this
>disk…
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>Select apply or OK…if you have any errors while the drive is un-indexing select
ignore
>all.
>
>Go back to “My Computer” and select C: (local disk) properties again, then select
>the tools tab.
>
>Select “Check Now” and the check the box that says automatically fix file system
>errors.
>
>The computer will prompt you to reboot.
>
>Reboot the computer…let the checkdisk run and then go back to “My computer” C: (local
>disk) properties and check the box (so it’s selected to re-index) to allow indexing
>service to index this disk….
>
>Select ignore all errors
>
>Run chkdsk again and it should be clean!
>
>
>You may have to do this again after running widows updates or adding programs!
>
>
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