My computer won't let me defragment
By musicman6
@musicman6 (2407)
United States
February 26, 2010 9:53am CST
I can run my scan disk, but when I go to defragment, it won't let me, and the error message that comes on says, "disk defragmenter has detected that Chkdsk is scheduled to run on the volume of (C) please run Chkdsk/F
I don't know what this means, I don't know anything about Chkdsk !
5 responses
@washingtonmark (367)
• United States
1 Mar 10
I had a virus in my motherboard, and my computer was doing the same thing. I hate to say it but it might mean your motherboard is going bad, and when I ran chkdsk I got an error also and eventually my computer just shut down.
@musicman6 (2407)
• United States
1 Mar 10
I also have a feeling you may be right! I will see if I can get someone to try and locate this 'corrupted file' ! Thank you
@___SKY___ (541)
• Hong Kong
27 Feb 10
Or if you want, just install some freeware for defragment like aulogics. Try it because i use this one rather than built in of windows. Hope it will run to your PC. Happy Lotting.
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@kaylachan (72832)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
26 Feb 10
Have you installed anything new recently? That sure is an interesting error. Perhaps somehow you scheduled something wwithout reconizing it. Try running a search through your computer for the conflicting program. And, be sure to scan your system with a full system scan to ensure there are no bugs in your system. It could be a number of things, best to weed them all out.
@topffer (42156)
• France
26 Feb 10
There is no conflict involved here, just some lost or bad clusters, and the system can't defragment the disk before these disk errors are fixed. You may lose clusters, by example, when a unstable software crashes. The lost clusters found by chkdsk are in your computer root (c:\) in files with a ".CHK" extension (FILE[number].CHK"). You can delete them. You may have bad clusters when, by example, you cut off abruptly the power of your computer : the disk is damaged and chkdsk marks as unusable the bad clusters. If it happens often, it's time to save your HDD and buy another one !
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@LaDeBoheme (2004)
• United States
26 Feb 10
Try rebooting. Chkdsk is same as scan disk and runs before start up.
Or you can do it the way topffer advised.
@LaDeBoheme (2004)
• United States
26 Feb 10
Your way is just as easy and effective, topffer. In fact, I was going to suggest the same steps when I saw you had beat me to it.
@topffer (42156)
• France
26 Feb 10
Chkdsk is a command to check and eventually repair your disks. The best way to run it is to open a DOS window (under XP : Run, type "Command" in the box, OK) and, at the prompt, to type "chkdsk c: /F" to check your C disk, "chkdsk d: /F" to check D, etc.
Type "exit" to close the DOS window when done.
