Win XP - NTFS - Scandish problem, quick help is appreciate

[hitmikey]

OK I've been having this problem for a while... I can't scandisk my computer!

I tried doing it and it says it needs access so I should schedule one for reboot... so I do that.

When that cute little XP boot screen scandisk comes up it says "This volume is NTFS" then "Cannot open direct access t o the volume" and goes into Windows.

I've tried using Norton Disk Doctor but that has the same problem... so how do I friggin scan my hard drive?



This is a clean XP install and I've trie dgoing through drive properties/tools etc.

 

[NogginBoink]

Check to see what's in HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\BootExecute.

It should be something like "autocheck autochk *"

And PLEASE: if you're putting error messages in quotes, MAKE SURE IT'S THE VERBATIM ERROR MESSAGE!

Searching for information on inaccurate error messages is useless.

 

[OmegaStarRed]

The answer to this question is in the Microsoft Knowledge database.

 

[NogginBoink]

Omega, your answer to the question was even less useful than mine.

When you're done playing my-ego-is-bigger-than-yours, perhaps you could do something useful, like post the Q number of the article that has the resolution.