Chkdsk always runs twice.

[Synomenon]

I'm running Windows XP Pro.. Whenever I run check disk, I do it by opening the run command in the start menu and then typing:

chkdsk c:/f/r

and then:

chkdsk d:/f/r


C is my primary hard drive and D is my external hard drive. The problem is, when I restart and then chkdsk starts, it runs and checks both drives, but after the second drive finishes, it scans them again. Anyone know how to keep chkdsk from checking each hard drive twice?

 

[Synomenon]

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[mzkhadir]

Could it that the second, its just telling you that its clean

 

[Bucknasty]

If you are using an chkdsk /r, you don't Need the /f. The "/f" is implied. By using /R it takes upto 10-100 times longer. /R invokes phase 4 and 5 of chkdsk. Phase 4 is a sector-by-sector confirm of the data. I don't know what phase 5 does.

To "fix" you have to "lock" the file system. That can be done with no problems on a "D" drive that doesn't hold the system. That is why a reboot is necessary on the drive that hold the system.


I have found sectors that show as good, with a chkdsk /f can show up as "bad" with the /R.

I went from 400k in bad clusters to 2gigs.. yes, 2gigs after running /R. Sectors were marked "bad" that the OS had zero problems reading.

ran /f about 4 times, with zero bad sectors or files found. After 3 days of running with /R, came the 2gigs worth of "should be" bad sectors.

I just wish someone would come out with a better NTFS checking utility than chkdsk.

 

[pkme2]

Maybe its time for you to clone your main drive, its just a precaution and if you don't need to protect your files, then disregard this.

I always get protective especially when I hear something off key with harddrives. Its always safer to take steps to protect data. Its your computer......

 

[Thor86]

If you are checkdisking multiple partitions at the same time, it does it all the time.

 

[Synomenon]

Originally posted by: Thor86
If you are checkdisking multiple partitions at the same time, it does it all the time.

No it doesn't. I've been running checkdisk on both hard drives on my system by doing:

chkdsk c:/f/r

chkdsk d:/f/r


then restarting and it has always done it just once for each drive. It's only started doing the repeating after I added an external, firewire hard drive.

 

[Nothinman]

I don't really see the issue, you should only be running chkdsk if you think there's a problem with the filesystem or drive so who cares if it runs twice?