Unable to determine volume version and state

Rebus3

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Jan 12, 2001
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Running Win2kProSP4 on a KT-266A system. As D: drive I have a WD 100GB Special Edition drive formatted NTFS Basic. Following a CPU upgrade, this drive has become inaccessible. Used and Free space both show 0 bytes and the volume label is blank. Disk Management shows the logical drive (listed with the right size), Online, and Healthy (Active). However, File System is blank (it should report NTFS). When I run CHKDSK from the command prompt (CHKDSK D: /v), I get the following message, "The type of the file system is NTFS. Unable to determine volume version and state. CHKDSK aborted." It then returns me to the command prompt. The bootsector of this drive appears to be identical to the backup copy of the sector at the end of the volume (no corruption there). Any leads to restoring the drive (with data intact) would be greatly appreciated. :confused:
 

LiLithTecH

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Jul 28, 2002
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CHKDSK / v only returns Cleanup info on a NTFS volume.

Run CHKNTFS /c which will run on the next boot.
It will run the check only if it finds a problem.

CHKNTFS /d will run on all drives that have a problem.

Are you using compression?
 

Rebus3

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No, I'm not using compression. (Egads, compression on a 100GB HD) :Q
Setting the boot time disk check via CHKNTFS /C D: does nothing (visible) at bootup. No check.