Hi there,

When I do a chkdsk c: in one machine with a 160 G HDD split into 2 X 80, the
C: drive keeps coming up with "chkdsk discovered free space marked as
allocated in the volume bitmap"

It says in order to correct this "Run chkdsk with the /F option to correct
these"

It goes through the routine on startup, and I've done this several times, it
still comes up with the above errors when I do a chkdsk....

So, it's keeping on doing it and I wonder how I can put a permanent fix on
this?

Thanks,

Gordon

"Gordon J. Rattray" <gords@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:eMERmtfAHHA.4428@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi there,
>
> When I do a chkdsk c: in one machine with a 160 G HDD split into 2 X 80,
the
> C: drive keeps coming up with "chkdsk discovered free space marked as
> allocated in the volume bitmap"
>
> It says in order to correct this "Run chkdsk with the /F option to correct
> these"
>
> It goes through the routine on startup, and I've done this several times,
it
> still comes up with the above errors when I do a chkdsk....
>
> So, it's keeping on doing it and I wonder how I can put a permanent fix on
> this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gordon
>

You need to do what it says:
- Click Start / Run
- Type chkdsk C: /F {Enter}
- Reboot the machine

Curious....what's the difference between running chkdsk in a command window
and the start | run routine?

Thanks,

Gordon

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message
news:ObY3q4gAHHA.2328@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>
> "Gordon J. Rattray" <gords@shaw.ca> wrote in message
> news:eMERmtfAHHA.4428@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Hi there,
>>
>> When I do a chkdsk c: in one machine with a 160 G HDD split into 2 X 80,
> the
>> C: drive keeps coming up with "chkdsk discovered free space marked as
>> allocated in the volume bitmap"
>>
>> It says in order to correct this "Run chkdsk with the /F option to
>> correct
>> these"
>>
>> It goes through the routine on startup, and I've done this several times,
> it
>> still comes up with the above errors when I do a chkdsk....
>>
>> So, it's keeping on doing it and I wonder how I can put a permanent fix
>> on
>> this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gordon
>>
>
> You need to do what it says:
> - Click Start / Run
> - Type chkdsk C: /F {Enter}
> - Reboot the machine
>
>

None, except that it's easier to see the screen output
while in a Command Prompt.


"Gordon J. Rattray" <gords@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:elyrpyhAHHA.1224@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Curious....what's the difference between running chkdsk in a command
window
> and the start | run routine?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gordon
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message
> news:ObY3q4gAHHA.2328@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> >
> > "Gordon J. Rattray" <gords@shaw.ca> wrote in message
> > news:eMERmtfAHHA.4428@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> When I do a chkdsk c: in one machine with a 160 G HDD split into 2 X
80,
> > the
> >> C: drive keeps coming up with "chkdsk discovered free space marked as
> >> allocated in the volume bitmap"
> >>
> >> It says in order to correct this "Run chkdsk with the /F option to
> >> correct
> >> these"
> >>
> >> It goes through the routine on startup, and I've done this several
times,
> > it
> >> still comes up with the above errors when I do a chkdsk....
> >>
> >> So, it's keeping on doing it and I wonder how I can put a permanent fix
> >> on
> >> this?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Gordon
> >>
> >
> > You need to do what it says:
> > - Click Start / Run
> > - Type chkdsk C: /F {Enter}
> > - Reboot the machine
> >
> >
>
>

See the following link. Have a complete information regarding your problem.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303079

If re-formatting is the only solution then it will not so easy as you are
receiving this error on your C Drive and may be it is your Boot / System
partition. You will not be able to format this partition within through
Windows.

Backup your all data of C Drive to a removable media or to another
partition. Boot from Windows XP bootable CD and follow the instructions to
setup and reformat the partition.

Hope this information helps you, let us know.


"Gordon J. Rattray" wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> When I do a chkdsk c: in one machine with a 160 G HDD split into 2 X 80, the
> C: drive keeps coming up with "chkdsk discovered free space marked as
> allocated in the volume bitmap"
>
> It says in order to correct this "Run chkdsk with the /F option to correct
> these"
>
> It goes through the routine on startup, and I've done this several times, it
> still comes up with the above errors when I do a chkdsk....
>
> So, it's keeping on doing it and I wonder how I can put a permanent fix on
> this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gordon
>
>
>

Hi Raj,

Would backing up the partition to a ghost image work?

Like this? Backup to ghost image on another partition.... Pull hard drive
out and put in another machine....reformat the first "C:" partition....then
put back in original machine and install the ghost backup image.....

Is that going to work? Or is ghost going to carry with it all the formatting
parameters?

Thanks,

Gordon

"RajKohli" <RajKohli@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CB46AA37-1403-46B6-A5BB-6E48180F9797@microsoft.com...
> See the following link. Have a complete information regarding your
> problem.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303079
>
> If re-formatting is the only solution then it will not so easy as you are
> receiving this error on your C Drive and may be it is your Boot / System
> partition. You will not be able to format this partition within through
> Windows.
>
> Backup your all data of C Drive to a removable media or to another
> partition. Boot from Windows XP bootable CD and follow the instructions to
> setup and reformat the partition.
>
> Hope this information helps you, let us know.
>
>
> "Gordon J. Rattray" wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> When I do a chkdsk c: in one machine with a 160 G HDD split into 2 X 80,
>> the
>> C: drive keeps coming up with "chkdsk discovered free space marked as
>> allocated in the volume bitmap"
>>
>> It says in order to correct this "Run chkdsk with the /F option to
>> correct
>> these"
>>
>> It goes through the routine on startup, and I've done this several times,
>> it
>> still comes up with the above errors when I do a chkdsk....
>>
>> So, it's keeping on doing it and I wonder how I can put a permanent fix
>> on
>> this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gordon
>>
>>
>>

Found this in "BlogSpot"...... it seems that's the issue with mine and I
should leave it alone?
Gordon

Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap. Windows found problems with the file
system.
Issue:

Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.

Tis is a known issue and the error messages are not actually means that
there is problem in your system. You can safely ignore the error messages.
The reason you are seeing these errors appear is because when you run CHKDSK
in command prompt, it runs in "Read only" mode, and the state of the
computer is changing at the time you run the utility. A "read only" chkdsk
on an active NTFS volume will result in false positive errors, this is
normal.

Read-only CHKDSK will abort before it completes all three phases if it
encounters errors in earlier phases and is prone to falsely reporting errors
when in read-only mode. That is, CHKDSK may report that a disk is corrupted
even when there is no real corruption present. This can happen if NTFS
happens to modify areas of the disk on behalf of some program activity that
CHKDSK is examining at the same time.

To verify a volume correctly, the volume must be in a static state, and the
only
way to guarantee that state is to lock the volume. CHKDSK only locks the
volume
when it runs before entering Windows or in Recovery Console with /F or /R
(which
implies "F") is specified.

To verify this, you can restart your computer in Recovery Console and run
"CHKDSK /f" in there. See if you get any error messages. For more
information about how to use Recovery Console, please refer to the following
article:

Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console

http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q314/0/58.asp


"Gordon J. Rattray" <gords@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:%23aV9S7nAHHA.4672@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi Raj,
>
> Would backing up the partition to a ghost image work?
>
> Like this? Backup to ghost image on another partition.... Pull hard drive
> out and put in another machine....reformat the first "C:"
> partition....then put back in original machine and install the ghost
> backup image.....
>
> Is that going to work? Or is ghost going to carry with it all the
> formatting parameters?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gordon
>
> "RajKohli" <RajKohli@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CB46AA37-1403-46B6-A5BB-6E48180F9797@microsoft.com...
>> See the following link. Have a complete information regarding your
>> problem.
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303079
>>
>> If re-formatting is the only solution then it will not so easy as you are
>> receiving this error on your C Drive and may be it is your Boot / System
>> partition. You will not be able to format this partition within through
>> Windows.
>>
>> Backup your all data of C Drive to a removable media or to another
>> partition. Boot from Windows XP bootable CD and follow the instructions
>> to
>> setup and reformat the partition.
>>
>> Hope this information helps you, let us know.
>>
>>
>> "Gordon J. Rattray" wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> When I do a chkdsk c: in one machine with a 160 G HDD split into 2 X 80,
>>> the
>>> C: drive keeps coming up with "chkdsk discovered free space marked as
>>> allocated in the volume bitmap"
>>>
>>> It says in order to correct this "Run chkdsk with the /F option to
>>> correct
>>> these"
>>>
>>> It goes through the routine on startup, and I've done this several
>>> times, it
>>> still comes up with the above errors when I do a chkdsk....
>>>
>>> So, it's keeping on doing it and I wonder how I can put a permanent fix
>>> on
>>> this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Gordon
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>

In this condition, what I will do is:

1. Backup every single data file of my C Drive to another partition.
2. Restart the PC.
3. Boot from Windows XP Bootable disc.
4. While Setting Up windows, delete the current C Drive partition and
re-create it.
5. Quick Format partition using NTFS.

That is all but only problem is that I have to reinstall every program after
windows installation complete.

Maybe the problem with you is because of large partition size and unknown
allocation size. If you like create a small size partition while reinstalling
say "30GB".

I only use C Drive to install Windows and other application. After
installing every software it occupay only 8 to 10GB space. I never save any
of my data on C Drive.

If you still don't want to reinstall everything then try this:

1. Click Start - Run - type REGEDIT and press enter.
2. Click F3 to find an entry called "BOOTEXECUTE"
3. After finding the entry, delete the entry.
4. Restart your PC and see if it again continue to run CHKDSK.

Hope this information helps you, let us know.

"Gordon J. Rattray" wrote:

> Hi Raj,
>
> Would backing up the partition to a ghost image work?
>
> Like this? Backup to ghost image on another partition.... Pull hard drive
> out and put in another machine....reformat the first "C:" partition....then
> put back in original machine and install the ghost backup image.....
>
> Is that going to work? Or is ghost going to carry with it all the formatting
> parameters?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gordon
>
> "RajKohli" <RajKohli@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CB46AA37-1403-46B6-A5BB-6E48180F9797@microsoft.com...
> > See the following link. Have a complete information regarding your
> > problem.
> >
> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303079
> >
> > If re-formatting is the only solution then it will not so easy as you are
> > receiving this error on your C Drive and may be it is your Boot / System
> > partition. You will not be able to format this partition within through
> > Windows.
> >
> > Backup your all data of C Drive to a removable media or to another
> > partition. Boot from Windows XP bootable CD and follow the instructions to
> > setup and reformat the partition.
> >
> > Hope this information helps you, let us know.
> >
> >
> > "Gordon J. Rattray" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> When I do a chkdsk c: in one machine with a 160 G HDD split into 2 X 80,
> >> the
> >> C: drive keeps coming up with "chkdsk discovered free space marked as
> >> allocated in the volume bitmap"
> >>
> >> It says in order to correct this "Run chkdsk with the /F option to
> >> correct
> >> these"
> >>
> >> It goes through the routine on startup, and I've done this several times,
> >> it
> >> still comes up with the above errors when I do a chkdsk....
> >>
> >> So, it's keeping on doing it and I wonder how I can put a permanent fix
> >> on
> >> this?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Gordon
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

Found this in "BlogSpot"...... it seems that's the issue with mine and I
should leave it alone?
Gordon

************************************************** ********
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap. Windows found problems with the file
system.
Issue:

Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.

Tis is a known issue and the error messages are not actually means that
there is problem in your system. You can safely ignore the error messages.
The reason you are seeing these errors appear is because when you run CHKDSK
in command prompt, it runs in "Read only" mode, and the state of the
computer is changing at the time you run the utility. A "read only" chkdsk
on an active NTFS volume will result in false positive errors, this is
normal.

Read-only CHKDSK will abort before it completes all three phases if it
encounters errors in earlier phases and is prone to falsely reporting errors
when in read-only mode. That is, CHKDSK may report that a disk is corrupted
even when there is no real corruption present. This can happen if NTFS
happens to modify areas of the disk on behalf of some program activity that
CHKDSK is examining at the same time.

To verify a volume correctly, the volume must be in a static state, and the
only
way to guarantee that state is to lock the volume. CHKDSK only locks the
volume
when it runs before entering Windows or in Recovery Console with /F or /R
(which
implies "F") is specified.

To verify this, you can restart your computer in Recovery Console and run
"CHKDSK /f" in there. See if you get any error messages. For more
information about how to use Recovery Console, please refer to the following
article:

Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console

http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q314/0/58.asp

*********************************************



"RajKohli" <RajKohli@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:969DB0A8-B0A1-46B9-BBBC-8A6F2F4FB985@microsoft.com...
> In this condition, what I will do is:
>
> 1. Backup every single data file of my C Drive to another partition.
> 2. Restart the PC.
> 3. Boot from Windows XP Bootable disc.
> 4. While Setting Up windows, delete the current C Drive partition and
> re-create it.
> 5. Quick Format partition using NTFS.
>
> That is all but only problem is that I have to reinstall every program
> after
> windows installation complete.
>
> Maybe the problem with you is because of large partition size and unknown
> allocation size. If you like create a small size partition while
> reinstalling
> say "30GB".
>
> I only use C Drive to install Windows and other application. After
> installing every software it occupay only 8 to 10GB space. I never save
> any
> of my data on C Drive.
>
> If you still don't want to reinstall everything then try this:
>
> 1. Click Start - Run - type REGEDIT and press enter.
> 2. Click F3 to find an entry called "BOOTEXECUTE"
> 3. After finding the entry, delete the entry.
> 4. Restart your PC and see if it again continue to run CHKDSK.
>
> Hope this information helps you, let us know.
>
> "Gordon J. Rattray" wrote:
>
>> Hi Raj,
>>
>> Would backing up the partition to a ghost image work?
>>
>> Like this? Backup to ghost image on another partition.... Pull hard
>> drive
>> out and put in another machine....reformat the first "C:"
>> partition....then
>> put back in original machine and install the ghost backup image.....
>>
>> Is that going to work? Or is ghost going to carry with it all the
>> formatting
>> parameters?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gordon
>>
>> "RajKohli" <RajKohli@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:CB46AA37-1403-46B6-A5BB-6E48180F9797@microsoft.com...
>> > See the following link. Have a complete information regarding your
>> > problem.
>> >
>> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303079
>> >
>> > If re-formatting is the only solution then it will not so easy as you
>> > are
>> > receiving this error on your C Drive and may be it is your Boot /
>> > System
>> > partition. You will not be able to format this partition within through
>> > Windows.
>> >
>> > Backup your all data of C Drive to a removable media or to another
>> > partition. Boot from Windows XP bootable CD and follow the instructions
>> > to
>> > setup and reformat the partition.
>> >
>> > Hope this information helps you, let us know.
>> >
>> >
>> > "Gordon J. Rattray" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi there,
>> >>
>> >> When I do a chkdsk c: in one machine with a 160 G HDD split into 2 X
>> >> 80,
>> >> the
>> >> C: drive keeps coming up with "chkdsk discovered free space marked as
>> >> allocated in the volume bitmap"
>> >>
>> >> It says in order to correct this "Run chkdsk with the /F option to
>> >> correct
>> >> these"
>> >>
>> >> It goes through the routine on startup, and I've done this several
>> >> times,
>> >> it
>> >> still comes up with the above errors when I do a chkdsk....
>> >>
>> >> So, it's keeping on doing it and I wonder how I can put a permanent
>> >> fix
>> >> on
>> >> this?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Gordon
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>

You should try it once:

1. Click Start - Run - type REGEDIT and press enter.
2. Click F3 to find an entry called "BOOTEXECUTE"
3. After finding the entry, delete the entry.
4. Restart your PC and see if it again continue to run CHKDSK.

See if this one helps you and ignore the error on boot, let us know.



"Gordon J. Rattray" wrote:

> Found this in "BlogSpot"...... it seems that's the issue with mine and I
> should leave it alone?
> Gordon
>
> ************************************************** ********
> Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap. Windows found problems with the file
> system.
> Issue:
>
> Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
> Windows found problems with the file system.
> Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.
>
> Tis is a known issue and the error messages are not actually means that
> there is problem in your system. You can safely ignore the error messages.
> The reason you are seeing these errors appear is because when you run CHKDSK
> in command prompt, it runs in "Read only" mode, and the state of the
> computer is changing at the time you run the utility. A "read only" chkdsk
> on an active NTFS volume will result in false positive errors, this is
> normal.
>
> Read-only CHKDSK will abort before it completes all three phases if it
> encounters errors in earlier phases and is prone to falsely reporting errors
> when in read-only mode. That is, CHKDSK may report that a disk is corrupted
> even when there is no real corruption present. This can happen if NTFS
> happens to modify areas of the disk on behalf of some program activity that
> CHKDSK is examining at the same time.
>
> To verify a volume correctly, the volume must be in a static state, and the
> only
> way to guarantee that state is to lock the volume. CHKDSK only locks the
> volume
> when it runs before entering Windows or in Recovery Console with /F or /R
> (which
> implies "F") is specified.
>
> To verify this, you can restart your computer in Recovery Console and run
> "CHKDSK /f" in there. See if you get any error messages. For more
> information about how to use Recovery Console, please refer to the following
> article:
>
> Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q314/0/58.asp
>
> *********************************************
>
>
>
> "RajKohli" <RajKohli@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:969DB0A8-B0A1-46B9-BBBC-8A6F2F4FB985@microsoft.com...
> > In this condition, what I will do is:
> >
> > 1. Backup every single data file of my C Drive to another partition.
> > 2. Restart the PC.
> > 3. Boot from Windows XP Bootable disc.
> > 4. While Setting Up windows, delete the current C Drive partition and
> > re-create it.
> > 5. Quick Format partition using NTFS.
> >
> > That is all but only problem is that I have to reinstall every program
> > after
> > windows installation complete.
> >
> > Maybe the problem with you is because of large partition size and unknown
> > allocation size. If you like create a small size partition while
> > reinstalling
> > say "30GB".
> >
> > I only use C Drive to install Windows and other application. After
> > installing every software it occupay only 8 to 10GB space. I never save
> > any
> > of my data on C Drive.
> >
> > If you still don't want to reinstall everything then try this:
> >
> > 1. Click Start - Run - type REGEDIT and press enter.
> > 2. Click F3 to find an entry called "BOOTEXECUTE"
> > 3. After finding the entry, delete the entry.
> > 4. Restart your PC and see if it again continue to run CHKDSK.
> >
> > Hope this information helps you, let us know.
> >
> > "Gordon J. Rattray" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Raj,
> >>
> >> Would backing up the partition to a ghost image work?
> >>
> >> Like this? Backup to ghost image on another partition.... Pull hard
> >> drive
> >> out and put in another machine....reformat the first "C:"
> >> partition....then
> >> put back in original machine and install the ghost backup image.....
> >>
> >> Is that going to work? Or is ghost going to carry with it all the
> >> formatting
> >> parameters?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Gordon
> >>
> >> "RajKohli" <RajKohli@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:CB46AA37-1403-46B6-A5BB-6E48180F9797@microsoft.com...
> >> > See the following link. Have a complete information regarding your
> >> > problem.
> >> >
> >> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303079
> >> >
> >> > If re-formatting is the only solution then it will not so easy as you
> >> > are
> >> > receiving this error on your C Drive and may be it is your Boot /
> >> > System
> >> > partition. You will not be able to format this partition within through
> >> > Windows.
> >> >
> >> > Backup your all data of C Drive to a removable media or to another
> >> > partition. Boot from Windows XP bootable CD and follow the instructions
> >> > to
> >> > setup and reformat the partition.
> >> >
> >> > Hope this information helps you, let us know.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > "Gordon J. Rattray" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi there,
> >> >>
> >> >> When I do a chkdsk c: in one machine with a 160 G HDD split into 2 X
> >> >> 80,
> >> >> the
> >> >> C: drive keeps coming up with "chkdsk discovered free space marked as
> >> >> allocated in the volume bitmap"
> >> >>
> >> >> It says in order to correct this "Run chkdsk with the /F option to
> >> >> correct
> >> >> these"
> >> >>
> >> >> It goes through the routine on startup, and I've done this several
> >> >> times,
> >> >> it
> >> >> still comes up with the above errors when I do a chkdsk....
> >> >>
> >> >> So, it's keeping on doing it and I wonder how I can put a permanent
> >> >> fix
> >> >> on
> >> >> this?
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks,
> >> >>
> >> >> Gordon
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

Gordon J. Rattray wrote:
> Found this in "BlogSpot"...... it seems that's the issue with mine and I
> should leave it alone?
> Gordon
>
> Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap. Windows found problems with the file
> system.
> Issue:
>
> Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
> Windows found problems with the file system.
> Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.
>
> Tis is a known issue and the error messages are not actually means that
> there is problem in your system. You can safely ignore the error messages.
> The reason you are seeing these errors appear is because when you run CHKDSK
> in command prompt, it runs in "Read only" mode, and the state of the
> computer is changing at the time you run the utility. A "read only" chkdsk
> on an active NTFS volume will result in false positive errors, this is
> normal.
>
> Read-only CHKDSK will abort before it completes all three phases if it
> encounters errors in earlier phases and is prone to falsely reporting errors
> when in read-only mode. That is, CHKDSK may report that a disk is corrupted
> even when there is no real corruption present. This can happen if NTFS
> happens to modify areas of the disk on behalf of some program activity that
> CHKDSK is examining at the same time.
>
> To verify a volume correctly, the volume must be in a static state, and the
> only
> way to guarantee that state is to lock the volume. CHKDSK only locks the
> volume
> when it runs before entering Windows or in Recovery Console with /F or /R
> (which
> implies "F") is specified.
>
> To verify this, you can restart your computer in Recovery Console and run
> "CHKDSK /f" in there. See if you get any error messages. For more
> information about how to use Recovery Console, please refer to the following
> article:
>
> Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q314/0/58.asp
>
>
> "Gordon J. Rattray" <gords@shaw.ca> wrote in message
> news:%23aV9S7nAHHA.4672@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
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Getting the message "Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap ... etc"
after a complete restart (rather than waking up from Hibernate) is my
experience also. If I immediately run chkdsk again (without
restarting), the message is usually no longer there. "Gordon J.
Rattray's" advice seems to be quite correct. I have learnt to ignore
the chkdsk error message.

RajKohli wrote:
> You should try it once:
>
> 1. Click Start - Run - type REGEDIT and press enter.
> 2. Click F3 to find an entry called "BOOTEXECUTE"
> 3. After finding the entry, delete the entry.
> 4. Restart your PC and see if it again continue to run CHKDSK.
>
> See if this one helps you and ignore the error on boot, let us know.
>
>
>
> "Gordon J. Rattray" wrote:
>
> > Found this in "BlogSpot"...... it seems that's the issue with mine and I
> > should leave it alone?
> > Gordon
> >
> > ************************************************** ********
> > Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap. Windows found problems with the file
> > system.
> > Issue:
> >
> > Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
> > Windows found problems with the file system.
> > Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.
> >
> > Tis is a known issue and the error messages are not actually means that
> > there is problem in your system. You can safely ignore the error messages.
> > The reason you are seeing these errors appear is because when you run CHKDSK
> > in command prompt, it runs in "Read only" mode, and the state of the
> > computer is changing at the time you run the utility. A "read only" chkdsk
> > on an active NTFS volume will result in false positive errors, this is
> > normal.
> >
> > Read-only CHKDSK will abort before it completes all three phases if it
> > encounters errors in earlier phases and is prone to falsely reporting errors
> > when in read-only mode. That is, CHKDSK may report that a disk is corrupted
> > even when there is no real corruption present. This can happen if NTFS
> > happens to modify areas of the disk on behalf of some program activity that
> > CHKDSK is examining at the same time.
> >
> > To verify a volume correctly, the volume must be in a static state, and the
> > only
> > way to guarantee that state is to lock the volume. CHKDSK only locks the
> > volume
> > when it runs before entering Windows or in Recovery Console with /F or /R
> > (which
> > implies "F") is specified.
> >
> > To verify this, you can restart your computer in Recovery Console and run
> > "CHKDSK /f" in there. See if you get any error messages. For more
> > information about how to use Recovery Console, please refer to the following
> > article:
> >
> > Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console
> >
> > http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q314/0/58.asp
> >
> > *********************************************
> >
> >
> >
> > "RajKohli" <RajKohli@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:969DB0A8-B0A1-46B9-BBBC-8A6F2F4FB985@microsoft.com...
> > > In this condition, what I will do is:
> > >
> > > 1. Backup every single data file of my C Drive to another partition.
> > > 2. Restart the PC.
> > > 3. Boot from Windows XP Bootable disc.
> > > 4. While Setting Up windows, delete the current C Drive partition and
> > > re-create it.
> > > 5. Quick Format partition using NTFS.
> > >
> > > That is all but only problem is that I have to reinstall every program
> > > after
> > > windows installation complete.
> > >
> > > Maybe the problem with you is because of large partition size and unknown
> > > allocation size. If you like create a small size partition while
> > > reinstalling
> > > say "30GB".
> > >
> > > I only use C Drive to install Windows and other application. After
> > > installing every software it occupay only 8 to 10GB space. I never save
> > > any
> > > of my data on C Drive.
> > >
> > > If you still don't want to reinstall everything then try this:
> > >
> > > 1. Click Start - Run - type REGEDIT and press enter.
> > > 2. Click F3 to find an entry called "BOOTEXECUTE"
> > > 3. After finding the entry, delete the entry.
> > > 4. Restart your PC and see if it again continue to run CHKDSK.
> > >
> > > Hope this information helps you, let us know.
> > >
> > > "Gordon J. Rattray" wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi Raj,
> > >>
> > >> Would backing up the partition to a ghost image work?
> > >>
> > >> Like this? Backup to ghost image on another partition.... Pull hard
> > >> drive
> > >> out and put in another machine....reformat the first "C:"
> > >> partition....then
> > >> put back in original machine and install the ghost backup image.....
> > >>
> > >> Is that going to work? Or is ghost going to carry with it all the
> > >> formatting
> > >> parameters?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >>
> > >> Gordon
> > >>
> > >> "RajKohli" <RajKohli@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > >> news:CB46AA37-1403-46B6-A5BB-6E48180F9797@microsoft.com...
> > >> > See the following link. Have a complete information regarding your
> > >> > problem.
> > >> >
> > >> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303079
> > >> >
> > >> > If re-formatting is the only solution then it will not so easy as you
> > >> > are
> > >> > receiving this error on your C Drive and may be it is your Boot /
> > >> > System
> > >> > partition. You will not be able to format this partition within through
> > >> > Windows.
> > >> >
> > >> > Backup your all data of C Drive to a removable media or to another
> > >> > partition. Boot from Windows XP bootable CD and follow the instructions
> > >> > to
> > >> > setup and reformat the partition.
> > >> >
> > >> > Hope this information helps you, let us know.
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > "Gordon J. Rattray" wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> >> Hi there,
> > >> >>
> > >> >> When I do a chkdsk c: in one machine with a 160 G HDD split into 2 X
> > >> >> 80,
> > >> >> the
> > >> >> C: drive keeps coming up with "chkdsk discovered free space marked as
> > >> >> allocated in the volume bitmap"
> > >> >>
> > >> >> It says in order to correct this "Run chkdsk with the /F option to
> > >> >> correct
> > >> >> these"
> > >> >>
> > >> >> It goes through the routine on startup, and I've done this several
> > >> >> times,
> > >> >> it
> > >> >> still comes up with the above errors when I do a chkdsk....
> > >> >>
> > >> >> So, it's keeping on doing it and I wonder how I can put a permanent
> > >> >> fix
> > >> >> on
> > >> >> this?
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Thanks,
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Gordon
> > >> >>

I tried it out of curiosity, and found four entries of "BOOTEXECUTE"
at different places. Since I don't have any trouble with chkdsk, I
didn't delete any one of them, but if I do get trouble, which one(s)
should I delete? Is it safe to delete them?.

To disable CHKDSK in windows 2000 and XP do the following

1. Run the Registry Editor (regedt32.exe) or regedit

2. Under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE subtree, go to the following subkey:

\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager

3. Change the BootExecute entry to:

autocheck autochk *

Exit your registry, you may need to restart or log out of Windows for the
change to take effect.


"witan" wrote:

>
> RajKohli wrote:
> > You should try it once:
> >
> > 1. Click Start - Run - type REGEDIT and press enter.
> > 2. Click F3 to find an entry called "BOOTEXECUTE"
> > 3. After finding the entry, delete the entry.
> > 4. Restart your PC and see if it again continue to run CHKDSK.
> >
> > See if this one helps you and ignore the error on boot, let us know.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Gordon J. Rattray" wrote:
> >
> > > Found this in "BlogSpot"...... it seems that's the issue with mine and I
> > > should leave it alone?
> > > Gordon
> > >
> > > ************************************************** ********
> > > Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap. Windows found problems with the file
> > > system.
> > > Issue:
> > >
> > > Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
> > > Windows found problems with the file system.
> > > Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.
> > >
> > > Tis is a known issue and the error messages are not actually means that
> > > there is problem in your system. You can safely ignore the error messages.
> > > The reason you are seeing these errors appear is because when you run CHKDSK
> > > in command prompt, it runs in "Read only" mode, and the state of the
> > > computer is changing at the time you run the utility. A "read only" chkdsk
> > > on an active NTFS volume will result in false positive errors, this is
> > > normal.
> > >
> > > Read-only CHKDSK will abort before it completes all three phases if it
> > > encounters errors in earlier phases and is prone to falsely reporting errors
> > > when in read-only mode. That is, CHKDSK may report that a disk is corrupted
> > > even when there is no real corruption present. This can happen if NTFS
> > > happens to modify areas of the disk on behalf of some program activity that
> > > CHKDSK is examining at the same time.
> > >
> > > To verify a volume correctly, the volume must be in a static state, and the
> > > only
> > > way to guarantee that state is to lock the volume. CHKDSK only locks the
> > > volume
> > > when it runs before entering Windows or in Recovery Console with /F or /R
> > > (which
> > > implies "F") is specified.
> > >
> > > To verify this, you can restart your computer in Recovery Console and run
> > > "CHKDSK /f" in there. See if you get any error messages. For more
> > > information about how to use Recovery Console, please refer to the following
> > > article:
> > >
> > > Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console
> > >
> > > http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q314/0/58.asp
> > >
> > > *********************************************
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "RajKohli" <RajKohli@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > news:969DB0A8-B0A1-46B9-BBBC-8A6F2F4FB985@microsoft.com...
> > > > In this condition, what I will do is:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Backup every single data file of my C Drive to another partition.
> > > > 2. Restart the PC.
> > > > 3. Boot from Windows XP Bootable disc.
> > > > 4. While Setting Up windows, delete the current C Drive partition and
> > > > re-create it.
> > > > 5. Quick Format partition using NTFS.
> > > >
> > > > That is all but only problem is that I have to reinstall every program
> > > > after
> > > > windows installation complete.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe the problem with you is because of large partition size and unknown
> > > > allocation size. If you like create a small size partition while
> > > > reinstalling
> > > > say "30GB".
> > > >
> > > > I only use C Drive to install Windows and other application. After
> > > > installing every software it occupay only 8 to 10GB space. I never save
> > > > any
> > > > of my data on C Drive.
> > > >
> > > > If you still don't want to reinstall everything then try this:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Click Start - Run - type REGEDIT and press enter.
> > > > 2. Click F3 to find an entry called "BOOTEXECUTE"
> > > > 3. After finding the entry, delete the entry.
> > > > 4. Restart your PC and see if it again continue to run CHKDSK.
> > > >
> > > > Hope this information helps you, let us know.
> > > >
> > > > "Gordon J. Rattray" wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Hi Raj,
> > > >>
> > > >> Would backing up the partition to a ghost image work?
> > > >>
> > > >> Like this? Backup to ghost image on another partition.... Pull hard
> > > >> drive
> > > >> out and put in another machine....reformat the first "C:"
> > > >> partition....then
> > > >> put back in original machine and install the ghost backup image.....
> > > >>
> > > >> Is that going to work? Or is ghost going to carry with it all the
> > > >> formatting
> > > >> parameters?
> > > >>
> > > >> Thanks,
> > > >>
> > > >> Gordon
> > > >>
> > > >> "RajKohli" <RajKohli@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > >> news:CB46AA37-1403-46B6-A5BB-6E48180F9797@microsoft.com...
> > > >> > See the following link. Have a complete information regarding your
> > > >> > problem.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303079
> > > >> >
> > > >> > If re-formatting is the only solution then it will not so easy as you
> > > >> > are
> > > >> > receiving this error on your C Drive and may be it is your Boot /
> > > >> > System
> > > >> > partition. You will not be able to format this partition within through
> > > >> > Windows.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Backup your all data of C Drive to a removable media or to another
> > > >> > partition. Boot from Windows XP bootable CD and follow the instructions
> > > >> > to
> > > >> > setup and reformat the partition.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Hope this information helps you, let us know.
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> > "Gordon J. Rattray" wrote:
> > > >> >
> > > >> >> Hi there,
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >> When I do a chkdsk c: in one machine with a 160 G HDD split into 2 X
> > > >> >> 80,
> > > >> >> the
> > > >> >> C: drive keeps coming up with "chkdsk discovered free space marked as
> > > >> >> allocated in the volume bitmap"
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >> It says in order to correct this "Run chkdsk with the /F option to
> > > >> >> correct
> > > >> >> these"
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >> It goes through the routine on startup, and I've done this several
> > > >> >> times,
> > > >> >> it
> > > >> >> still comes up with the above errors when I do a chkdsk....
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >> So, it's keeping on doing it and I wonder how I can put a permanent
> > > >> >> fix
> > > >> >> on
> > > >> >> this?
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >> Thanks,
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >> Gordon
> > > >> >>
>
> I tried it out of curiosity, and found four entries of "BOOTEXECUTE"
> at different places. Since I don't have any trouble with chkdsk, I
> didn't delete any one of them, but if I do get trouble, which one(s)
> should I delete? Is it safe to delete them?.
>
>