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re: chkdsk problems
Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ari
(1142 messages posted)
Consider using MBRWizard to back up your current master boot record, then use fixmbr
to "fix" it...if you make things worse by doing that, you can restore the master
boot record from your MBRWizard backup.
MBRWizard is here: http://www.mbrwizard.com/
(and it's free.)
On Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 3:21 pm, Brock Jones wrote:
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>I have been having trouble with my computer running chkdsk each time I reboot and
>it says I have a dirty volume on my c Drive. I've read several things about what
>to do about this and one led me to go to the recovery console to run fixmbr. When
>I did it said I had either a nonstandard or some other problem in my mbr that could
>cause me to be unable to access any of my partitions. It went on to recommend I
>not continue with fixmbr if I was not having sufficient problems to keep me from
>running my computer normally. Well that is my situation. I only have the problem
>with continual chkdsk each time I boot...everything else seems to work fine. Its
>just that I would like to get to the bottom of this as it seems I could have problems
>anytime with it. I guess I should make images of my drives and then go ahead and
>run the fixmbr. Does that seem reasonable. I've never run into this before. Or
>should I just fix the chkdsk so it doesn't run each time and keep my fingers crossed.
> Thanks in advance.... -Brock
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- chkdsk problems (Brock Jones: Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 3:21 pm)
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