CHKDSK /F

How do I use chkdsk during bootup of Vista to repair corrupted files? I have
tried going to RUN and CMD in Vista, enter chkdsk /f, I'm prompted to
postpont chkdsk /F at next bootup. I restart VISTA, I push F8, select boot
to command prompt. The software opens to safemode with no icons in a large
box, and then I try chkdsk /f and I'm told that the drive is in use and I
must try again at next bootup. I try not using using F8 and I still can not
use chkdsk /f. The files I need to uncorrupt are in IE5.

What next?

If you enter chkdsk /f in Vista (using elevated privileges), all you have to
do is restart the machine.
DON'T press F8! After you see the green status bar + "Microsoft Corporation"
at the bottom of your screen, Checkdisk will start automatically.

Willem

Click on start -> Acessories then right click "Command Prompt" and choose
"Run as administrator" -> accept the UAC prompt by clicking ok or entering
your password. -> at the prompt type "chkdsk /f" (without the quotes) and
when prompted to run at next reboot type Y and press enter. after that,
simply close the command prompt, and reboot your computer normally (do not
try to run safe mode!) this should allow chkds to run normally on startup.

I did chkdsk /f on a command window with admin privileges, but it does not check the disk upon reboot. It goes all the way to vista as usual.
Then, on Explorer I right click on the c:\ drive, properties, click on check disk, schedule for next reboot. It tells me it will do it, but on reboot it does not do it.
Then, I found chkdsk.exe with Explorer, right cklicked, run as as admin, Again, it tells me it will do it but it does not.
I am running Vista home premium on a Lenovo 3000 N100 and I do have bad sectors corrupting some user files; everything else runs very slow but fine.
Please help!

Zorzal.

Use "chkdsk [Drive] /f" in the command prompt
ex: chkdsk C: /f

I did "chkdsk c: /f" on a command window with admin privileges, but it does not check the disk upon reboot. It goes all the way to vista as usual on my Lenovo w/ Vista home premium.

I did the same on a Fujitsu with Vista Business and it worked ! So I checked the version numer of the chkdsk; it is 6.0.6000.16386 last modified 11/2/06 4:45 AM, the same on both machines, so I have the right chkdsk.exe
The problem is that the Lenovo just ignores it when rebooting.

I even went into the BIOS and set it to display all the boot messages as DOS machines used to do in the old days, but no matter, the Lenovo does not see the previous request to do a chkdsk before going into Vista.

I did "fsutil dirty querry c:" and yes, the drive is dirty.

I checked the HD with pcdoctor and with Hitachi's DFT utility, and also with Lenovo's recovery (whichis pc doctor bundled by Lenovo). All these test the surface of the drive directly and they come up fine, the tests pass every time. I think my corrupted files and bad sectors are logical errors that CHKDSk would solve but I can get it to run on re-boot.

I can run CHKDSK from Vista without /F and it tells me there are bad sectors, definitely, a bunch of them. I have files and a folder I can't open because they are corrupted.

Is there any utility to do CHKDSK from a bootable CD?

Any other suggestion?

I just tried running CHKDSK from my BartPE bootable CD and it ran fine. I don't know if you can make a BartPE CD on a machine running Vista, I haven't had the need to try. The utility to make a BartPE CD can be found at http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ and it is freeware. Aloha, Ray

Did you ever find a fix to your problem? I have the exact same issue. Same
hardware and software. I am in a catch 22 situation since I can't run chkdsk
/f to fix the dirty bit and thus can't do a backup. Based on what I have read
seems like a Lenovo issue. Does anyone have a workaround solution? I have
been looking for a way to make a bootable CD in vista to run chkdsk from a
unmounted volume.

Any and all suggestions would be appreciated.