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Question

"Checking file system on F" message on blue screen

Jan 23, 2014 12:04PM PST

Hi


Im using windows xp pc. While booting my system is displaying this message on a blue screen
"Checking file system on F:The type of the file system is NTFS "

I searched alot in internet and tried many ways to solve it , but nothing seems worked out . please help me Sad

I clicked on run and typed 'chkdsk' - then 'enter'

it got displayed , drive -F is not included in verification...then diplayed few files got deleted and few errors got corrected then displayed a message as
"Index verification completed" Errors found . CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode "

please tell me how to rectify it ...

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i tried with chkdsk / F
Jan 23, 2014 7:20PM PST

Thanks for replying me ,

I tried this command chkdsk / F, then i got this message

the type of file systm is ntfs
cannot lock current drive

chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts ? Y / N

I typed Y and entered and restarted computer

still getting that blue screen message ... nothing happened

please kindly look into this issue

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Re: chkdsk
Jan 23, 2014 7:34PM PST

That's not the right command. It tells Windows to check the c:-drive. It seems the message was about the f:-drive, although you didn't tell what your f:-drive is.

The right command is
chkdsk f: /f
although you should be able to do the same from the properties of the f:-drive in Windows Explorer.

If that fails, because it's in use, reboot in safe mode and try again if you can't find and stop the process that's using it.

Kees

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Answer
check your permissions for that drive
Jan 25, 2014 9:50PM PST

Seems it's saying you have a right to "read" files from it, but not to do more than that. Maybe you set it up under an administrator account and now using a different account?

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Err... Bad Sector?!
Jan 28, 2014 6:15AM PST