Guest aligatrjoe Posted September 4, 2008 Posted September 4, 2008 RE: CHKNTSF results I ran CMD. Then issued command: CHKNTSF C: Result: The type of file system is raw. What does this mean and is it normal? Seems that I cannot run CHKDSK /F because of this result. I am suspicious of the Disk Drive and don't know what to try next. Any help would be greatly appreciated I am running Windows XP Pro -- Bill W
Guest Curt Christianson Posted September 4, 2008 Posted September 4, 2008 Re: CHKNTSF results Re: CHKNTSF results Hi Bill, This subject is over my head, but you may find some useful information here: http://www.z-a-recovery.com/art-raw-filesystem.htm HTH,-- Curt http://dundats.mvps.org/ http://www.aumha.org/ http://dundats.mvps.org/AutoIt/default.aspx "aligatrjoe" <aligatrjoe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:5674CFE5-49B7-4E88-907E-A24A4A831348@microsoft.com... >I ran CMD. Then issued command: CHKNTSF C: > Result: The type of file system is raw. > What does this mean and is it normal? Seems that I cannot run CHKDSK /F > because of this result. > I am suspicious of the Disk Drive and don't know what to try next. > Any help would be greatly appreciated > > I am running Windows XP Pro > -- > Bill W
Guest Lem Posted September 4, 2008 Posted September 4, 2008 Re: CHKNTSF results Re: CHKNTSF results aligatrjoe wrote: > I ran CMD. Then issued command: CHKNTSF C: > Result: The type of file system is raw. > What does this mean and is it normal? Seems that I cannot run CHKDSK /F > because of this result. > I am suspicious of the Disk Drive and don't know what to try next. > Any help would be greatly appreciated > > I am running Windows XP Pro Why did you run ChkNTFS in the first place? It's not even normally available in Windows XP, and its purpose is to disable the automatic running of chkdsk. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/160963 If chkntfs /d c: doesn't fix things up, you may have really screwed things up. Assuming that Windows is still viable , run Disk Management (Start > Run > diskmgmt.msc [click OK]) and see what it says about the state of your drive. If you're concerned about the health of your disk drive, go to the web site of the disk's manufacturer, download the utility that all such manufacturers have, and run that. -- Lem -- MS-MVP To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm
Guest aligatrjoe Posted September 5, 2008 Posted September 5, 2008 Re: CHKNTSF results Re: CHKNTSF results Thanks Lem. Finally some really useful info -- Bill W "Lem" wrote: > aligatrjoe wrote: > > I ran CMD. Then issued command: CHKNTSF C: > > Result: The type of file system is raw. > > What does this mean and is it normal? Seems that I cannot run CHKDSK /F > > because of this result. > > I am suspicious of the Disk Drive and don't know what to try next. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated > > > > I am running Windows XP Pro > > Why did you run ChkNTFS in the first place? It's not even normally > available in Windows XP, and its purpose is to disable the automatic > running of chkdsk. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/160963 > > If chkntfs /d c: doesn't fix things up, you may have really screwed > things up. Assuming that Windows is still viable , run Disk Management > (Start > Run > diskmgmt.msc [click OK]) and see what it says about the > state of your drive. > > If you're concerned about the health of your disk drive, go to the web > site of the disk's manufacturer, download the utility that all such > manufacturers have, and run that. > > > > > -- > Lem -- MS-MVP > > To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer > http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm >
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