Aaron Posted September 8, 2003 Share Posted September 8, 2003 Go to Start > Run and type CMDthen when the command prompt window appears, type only:chkdsk c:(change drive letter to where your OS resides if different from c:\)Do you get the following messages?Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.Windows found problems with the file system.Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.I got this on my maxtor 60gb, thinking it was a bad hard drive, despite running a full chkdsk scan with /F and formatting & reinstalling XP, but I still got that message. I swapped over to a working 120gb Western Digital and I'm still getting the same message. If you get the same message when you try chkdsk, then its obviously normal behaviour. (I just want to put my mind at peace ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0r3d Posted September 8, 2003 Share Posted September 8, 2003 Sorry Aaron. No such error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Nellie Posted September 8, 2003 Share Posted September 8, 2003 I didn't get that error either.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crowman Posted September 8, 2003 Share Posted September 8, 2003 No error here either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rik Posted September 8, 2003 Share Posted September 8, 2003 Nope...sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTRALONG Posted September 8, 2003 Share Posted September 8, 2003 I got the same msg in my 2 disk's ( c: 10gb / d: 100gb ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R600 Posted September 8, 2003 Share Posted September 8, 2003 I had that once, but I cant remember how I got rid of it.Might have deleted the partition and created a new one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveXP Posted September 8, 2003 Share Posted September 8, 2003 No error here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcant Posted September 8, 2003 Share Posted September 8, 2003 i think this a partition error, not actual disk error.try to repartition, as R600 suggested.if you have partition magic, i think it corrects error on start, you might wanna try that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted September 8, 2003 Author Share Posted September 8, 2003 Now that you mention it, I created a small FAT32 partition yesterday on the same hard drive so I could backup my ghost images to it. And that partition was created with PM8, I guess I'll have to reinstall that and see what's wrong Edit: Looks like I can't check it for errors and it suggests to use the Operating System's check utility. But chkdsk never fixes it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R600 Posted September 8, 2003 Share Posted September 8, 2003 You're better off using FDisk. chkdsk isn't the best utility for error correction, but since WinXP came out, do we really have a choice?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunil Posted September 8, 2003 Share Posted September 8, 2003 Hey Arron Run FixMBR, the problem you are experiencing happened to mew once because i had installed linux, running fixmbr fixed the volume bitmap... you need to run this from the windows recovery console.Sunil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted September 8, 2003 Author Share Posted September 8, 2003 Ok I'll give that a go. There's no side effects from running FixMBR is there? Because this might be the first time I've actually gonna use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunil Posted September 9, 2003 Share Posted September 9, 2003 Sorry about the late reply, but no there are no side effects what so ever, let me know how it goes..Sunil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted September 9, 2003 Author Share Posted September 9, 2003 I ran it yesterday and the Volume Bitmap error is gone. Only time will tell if it appears again though! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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