July 05, 2004
Aggravation
On the weekend I had some computer free time, so I decided to set up my computer for its regular chkdsk / defrag. I came back thinking everything was hunky-dory... (isn't that a great term), windows was running blah blah... but the next time I booted up I received this message:
Cannot open volume for direct access.
The type of the file system is NTFS.
IFSUTIL: Can't open drive. Status returned = c0000043.
Windows has finished checking the disk.
Did a quick search for it this morning and came up with a couple of results:
JSI FAQ says that there is currently no fix for this, but you can try Chkdsk /X, which will force a dismount of the volume. MY only problem with this solution is that it's my Windows volume that this is happening on, won't that cause problems?
Microsoft Knowledge Base is even less helpful "Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem .... in XP " and if you notice at the bottom of the page it says Last Reviewed: 8/14/2003 (1.0)
Great... just friggin great... and the volume is becoming very fragmented, but I don't want to defrag until I can get a successful Chkdsk.
Any help anyone?
Run CHKDSK /X... It'll bitch and moan that it can't do it because the volume is mounted, but will schedule a check for the next reboot.
Reboot. :)
Posted by: Dan at July 6, 2004 01:06 AMWell I tried that ... it rebooted... and gave the same friggin error upon startup.
I wonder if my partition magic rescue disk has chkdsk on it, maybe I could do it that way
Posted by: Oorgo at July 8, 2004 08:38 AM|
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