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Conference decwet::windows-nt

Title:Windows NT
Notice:See note 15.0 for HCL location
Moderator:TARKIN::LIN.com::FOLEY
Created:Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6086
Total number of notes:31449

5827.0. "Logfile for CHKDSK run during reboot ?" by RDGENG::ABRAM (John Abram) Fri Mar 21 1997 04:26

       Hi
    
    I have a customer experiencing problems in which files that appear to
    copy from CD to hard disk during an application program installation
    then seem to get deleted during the subsequent required reboot of the
    system. We notice that CHKDSK is being invokedduring reboot and is very
    active with lots of reports but I don't know where to look for a log of
    the activity. Does chkdsk log this activity during startup or can it be
    configured to log this data ?
    
    Obviously, this behaviour is very unsettling and the customer wants
    reassurance that this will only impact the files installed by the
    application and is not indicative of a general problem and the risk
    that other files might get deleted.
    
    The system is a WinNT V3.51, SP5 installed on a Prioris ZX6000 quad
    processor with NTFS. The system disk (4 GB) is mirrored using WinNT
    mirroring and is located on the internal SCSI bus (along with the CDROM
    and DLT drive). There are a number of data disks connected to an
    external 3 channel RAID controller installed in a separate StorageWork
    shelf.
    
    Does any one know where I can obtain any disk exerciser tools to see if
    there is a more general problem with the disk configuration ?
    
    Any help much appreciated
    
    Thanks
    
    John
    
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5827.1TARKIN::LINBill LinFri Mar 21 1997 06:479
    re: RDGENG::ABRAM
    
    John,
    
    You could suggest running chkdsk in read mode (that's all that would be
    allowed on the boot drive and any drives which cannot be locked for
    exclusive access...) before the system reboot.
    
    /Bill
5827.2further infoRDGENG::ABRAMJohn AbramSun Mar 23 1997 04:58287
    Bill
    
    Will chkdsk, in read-only mode, report what it would do if it were run
    in fix mode or does it simply indicate errors `?  I have run chkdsk in
    read-only mode on one machine and see a series of quite alarming
    messages - see below. Is it safe to assume that these messages indicate
    what CHKDSK /F would do and not what CHKDSK is doing ? How many of
    these indicate "garbage collection" type activities (tidying up
    indexes) and how many relate to actual deletions of files ?
    
    Is there anyway to cross-ref the file numbers to actual file names ?
    
    Also I assume that in WinNT CHKDSK cleaned up files are put into
    separate FOUND.nnn directories rather than the DOS filennnn.chk (?)
    files ? Under some of these FOUND directories I get subdirectories - is
    CHKDSK indicating something wrong with the directory entry or simply
    the files in that directory ?
    
    Thanks
    
    John
    
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The type of the file system is NTFS.
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5827.3TARKIN::LINBill LinSun Mar 23 1997 07:0717
    re: .2 by RDGENG::ABRAM
    
    John,
    
    I don't know the details of NTFS and CHKDSK to understand what is
    being done with a CHKDSK and what will be done with a CHKDSK /F. 
    I would have presumed that CHKDSK alone will not make
    modifications.  I have had an error in an NTFS partition that
    CHKDSK /F could not correct.  It was an error of the type
    "Correcting error in index $Ixx for file xxxx."  It took a
    reformat of the disk to clear out that particular error.  Perhaps
    it was my mirrored set that prevented proper cleanup of the index
    error.
    
    Sorry I can't help.
    
    /Bill