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Dean Kukral <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 16 Apr 2006 15:07:07 -0500
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Thanks, Jim.  I saw the articles in the  KB, too.  Some of them described 
the problem accurately.  The rub, however, is that I am using a new, clean 
install that supposedly includes SP2!  Furthermore, I went to the M$ upgrade 
pages and installed all the new stuff that has come out since.

Fortune has smiled on me, however.  I was having trouble a few days ago 
upgrading to the most recent version of SpyWare Doctor.  I forget exactly 
what was happening, but I did a ctrl-alt-del reboot.  When it restarted, 
ChkDsk started working correctly!!  I left it alone for a while, and when I 
came back, the scan was over and Windows had loaded.  I have not seen the 
ChkDsk message since.

Go figure!!

Dean Kukral


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Dodd" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 6:41 AM


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean Kukral" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 8:26 AM


>I tried to run chkdsk on my C: drive, and it has to run before the
>"welcome"
> screen comes up.
>
> So, when I boot, eventually the blue screen comes up to run chkdsk.  It
> probably sees the disk, because it recognizes the file type as NTFS.  But
> then, it says that it cannot access the disk for direct access.  Then it
> says that it is done and continues bringing up Windows.
>
> The problem is that it now does this every time that I start Windows.  It
> adds ten seconds or so to the startup process every time I start.  No big
> deal, but annoying.
>
> Does anyone know how I can either get it to run right and then go away or
> just get it to go away?
>
> I am running a fairly recent clean install of XP Pro.  The C: drive is a
> WD
> 150GB Raptor SATA drive, which may have some relation to the problem.
>
> MB: ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe
> CPU: AMD FX-60
>
> tia
>
> Dean Kukral


Good morning,

I did a search in Microsoft's Knowledge Base and came up with a possible
solution to this problem.  Below is what Microsoft had to say:

SYMPTOMS
When you schedule the Chkdsk utility to run at startup, you may receive an
error message that is similar to the following when you restart the
computer:

Cannot open volume for direct access. The type of the file system is NTFS.
IFSUTIL: Can't open drive. Status returned = c0000043. Windows has finished
checking the disk.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft
Windows XP.
For additional information, click the following article number to view the
article in
the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
322389 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322389/EN-US/) How to obtain the
latest
Windows XP service pack
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products
that are
listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2.


Hope this helps,

Jim Dodd 

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