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CHKDSK (when asked to perform a full surface scan) is one of those apps that 
demand the FULL attention of the volume it's trying to scan.  As a result, 
it will never be able to check the partition in use by the currently running 
operating system (C:\ in most cases).  Instead, it pops up a waring that it 
can't run with files in use on the drive and will ask if you'd like to 
schedule a scan to be run on the next reboot.  Click on the Yes button and 
reboot your system.  Instead of booting back into Windows, it'll get to a 
certain point and then start up the scan.  It does provide a way for you to 
cancel that scan, but that would defeat the purpose of telling it Yes 
earlier.

On the other hand, Defrag will work on a system partition.  It'll just work 
around those files that are in use and they just won't get defragged.  This 
is why I suggest running Defragmenter in Safe Mode.

Peace,
Gman

http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php

"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ml" <my2punkin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "pctechtalk" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 6:09 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=-


>I tried several times to do a chkdsk in safe mode but up came the note that
> it wouldn't work because the system had to be free for it to work???  So 
> is
> Windows still running the way I get into safe mode so it won't let the
> chkdsk do it's thing??? I never used to do that in safe mode--always just
> found my way in via My computer and off it went....mmmmmmmmm
> ml 

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