Re: Strange problems with HP 340 with XP home OS

On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 01:01:28 +0100, Chris French
<newspost-c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In message <sd5p75tuprhbm8iqrpja1ovpaopn27chls@xxxxxxx>, Richard Lobb
<greyhounds@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 18:37:35 +0100, "Trev"
<trevbowdenatdsl.pipex.cominvalid> wrote:

Richard Lobb wrote:
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:01:51 -0500, Groove <grooove@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Richard Lobb <greyhounds@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:r10o759hvuqk6im5aph67j54k0qc22jeg6@xxxxxxx:

The problem is this - sometimes it gives the error message "Windows
needs to check one of the HDs for inconsistencies" and needs to run
Chk Dsk. This it does and 99.9 percent of the time it reports zero
errors and no bad sectors. When it boots again there are no
problems running any programs. It has "repaired" the disk. The
trouble is


Check if 'dirty' bit is set for that hard disk:
Start/Run/CMD
at prompt enter: fsutil dirty query C:

If set again from CMD window enter:
chkdsk /f
and reboot.

Hopefully that will clear the issue.

Computer returned message
"fsutil not recognised as a command in any external or internal
program" etc

Is this right?
no you did not enter it correctly did you open command prompt

went into RUN

I typed CMD (return)

Dos box appeared -
At the C:\Documents and Settings\Owner> prompt inside the dos box - I
typed "fsutil dirty query C:" (return)

Computer stated
" 'fsutil' is not recognised as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file."
then repeats the C:\Documents and Settings\Owner> prompt

where am I going wrong?


Hmm, dunno.

Have you checked that fsutil.exe is present on your system - here it
lives in the windows/system32 directory

Thanks Chris,

Yes - Search pulls up two copies of fsutil.exe - one in
C:\windows\system32 and one coloured blue in
C:\windows\system32\dllcashe.

But I typed it in without the quotes.

However I doubt if this is the real problem because when in the rare
0.1 percent of the cases ChkDsk does actually report an error it fixes
it automatically - hence Chkdsk is already switched to the /f option -
otherwise it would not fix the errors just report them.

I wonder if it is more to do with say faulty ram or something similar
because I've checked the integrity of the back-ups using made Acronis
- and each time it reports 100% integrity. (Whereas when I did a
backup using Nero 9 - it first reported 100% verification - but when I
tried to read the files in the same Nero saved backup - Nero failed) I
removed Nero 9.

As I'm getting similar though not identical errors with a brand new
disk - I somehow doubt if it is anything to do with the disk.

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