Chkdsk on windows 2003 server

Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows Server General Forum. Sign in to vote. Monday, November 5, PM. This closes all of the handles to the physical disk. To take the group offline, right-click the group name, and then click Take off-line.

In the Cluster Administrator tool, click the shared disk on which you want to run Chkdsk, and then bring it online. To do this, right-click the disk resource, and then click Bring on-line.

If the dirty bit was previously set, Chkdsk may automatically run and the Physical Disk resource may take a while to come online. In Windows NT 4. In Windows , if you open Task Manager you will see Chkdsk running as a process. If you receive a Disk cannot be locked error message when you try to run Chkdsk, verify that all services and tools that have access to the drive are stopped, and then try to run Chkdsk again. Any running service or program that has an open handle to the drive can prevent Chkdsk from running.

At the point at which the hang-up occurred nothing much appeared to happen even after 12 hours of waiting.

Can anyone suggest a way forward, or recommend a reliable alternative to chkdsk? The drive details and command output are listed below. Folders: 61, Files: 1,, Size on disk: GB , , , bytes. The type of the file system is NTFS. File verification completed. Index verification completed.

Security descriptor verification completed. Usn Journal verification completed. Running chkdsk. Check out the Windows Server archive , and catch up on the most recent tips from this newsletter. Stay on top of the latest WS2K3 tips and tricks with our free Windows Server newsletter, delivered each Wednesday.

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