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defragging problems

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Limp Gawd
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I have a WD 120gb hd, divided into two partitions. One 30gb partition for my programs and stuff, and the other 80gb for data and stuff. ( the other 10 just isnt there..i remember someone told me before, but i forgot, so why is that again?) anyways, i wanted to defrag, so i opened the disk defragmenter and started the 30 gig partition. It worked fine. I then started the 80 gig partition, but after about a second of analyzing, it says :

"Defragmentation of (F:) has been aborted due to inconsistencies that were detected in the file system. Please run CHKDSK or SCANDISK on (F:) to repair these inconsistencies, then run Disk Defragmenter again."

i had absolutely no idea what it meant, but i decided to dry doing start>run>CHKDSK, and luckly it worked. But i only got something that said it was doing stages 1 of 3, 2 of 3, and 3 of 3. After that, the window just closed, and nothing happened. I still couldnt deframent, so i tried putting in SCANDISK, but it didnt work. How do i run SCANDISK on (F:)? and will my files still be there after whatever it does?
 
assuming that you are running winXP: start->run->cmd (return)
chkdsk [drive letter] /F /X /R
(wait a while)
 
the CHKDSK works fine, although it doesnt seem like it does anything, but its the SCANDISK that i dont know anything about, or how to work it.
 
Scandisk is only for windows 9X (old) and DOS (older)

Chkdsk /f (and you need the /f) is what you do to fix it. I like to run it from a CMD prompt so that the screen doesn't just dissapear when it is done. (/x and /r are not bad ideas either)

Edit: if you are a GUI person and don't like command line interfaces, you can just go to "My Computer" right click on the drive, select "Properties" then click on the "Tools" tab, there you will see: "Check Now" under "Error-Checking" click on "Check Now" and you will get a GUI for ChkDsk. Select "Automatically fix file system errors" (that is /f) if you want you can check "scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" (that is /r) though the second one will slow down the process by a lot.

==>Lazn
 
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