Can't Scandisk in Win2k... HELP!

[Xavier211 0]

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I'm running Windows 2000 Pro with SP1 and all the latest updates from Microsoft's Windows Update. I decided it was time for a scandisk, since the last time I had done a full surface scan was before I formatted my hard drive and installed Win2k.

I right clicked on my hard drive and went to the Tools tab. Then I clicked on "Check Now..." under the Error-Checking box. I got the following message:

 

The disk check could not be performed because exclusive access to the drive could not be obtained. Do you want to schedule this disk check to occur the next time you restart the computer?"

 

This occurs ONLY when I check two boxes indicating that the scandisk utility should "Automatically Fix File System Errors" and "Scan for and Attempt Recovery of Bad Sectors."

 

Anyone got any ideas? Another gripe I have is that I properly set up users and still have to enter a password to access another computer networked to mine. Both machines run Win2k. Even I set the user account to have no password, it still comes up with the window and I have to press enter without entering a password.

 

Is this because it doesn't recognize me as an Administrator? Is this why I don't have 'exclusive access to the drive'? I created an account for myself with membership to the Administrator group. Isn't this good enough?

 

- Xavier211

[DosFreak 2]

1. The scandisk program in Windows NT requires a reboot to scan the entire disk. When you load up NT fully files are in use and the scandisk program does not like this so it simply does a scandisk when you reboot.

2. Are these 2 computers on a network or are they just peer to peer? If peer that's probably why....

[Dirty Harry 0]

BTW, don't cross-post please. Just noticed that you've posted the same topic in the tips & config board. See my comments there

 

http://216.234.186.180/ubb/Forum6/HTML/000339.html

[Brian Frank 0]

If youve got your drive partitioned, use the command prompt and type x:\chkdsk, where x is the letter of the drive you want to scan. The only drive you will have to reboot to check is drive C. This is natural, so dont sweat it.