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Jack_Bread

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Corrupted Directory
« on: February 22, 2014, 02:16:54 am »
My downloads folder has been corrupted for some mysterious reason. Its been like that for a month or so now and I have attempted to fix it.
Everything I've googled so far has pretty much said "Do chkdsk /f" but whenever I try that, command prompt tells me that it cannot do that because "the volume is in use by another process" then asks me if I want to schedule a chkdsk on rebooting. Rebooting does nothing.
Other solutions I found involved reinstalling windows, which is something I've done before and don't want to have to deal with that mess.
I don't care about losing things from the folder since I haven't actually used it for keeping downloaded stuff, it's just that a few programs I want to use makes my computer complain about the corrupted directory.
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Re: Corrupted Directory
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2014, 04:14:48 am »
Maybe you didn't properly accept to schedule the CHKDSK /F?
I don't see why it wouldn't work, really.
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Re: Corrupted Directory
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2014, 06:10:55 am »
Yuo can also run the scan by going to My Computer, right click on drive, Properties, Tools, Check Disk.
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Re: Corrupted Directory
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2014, 12:23:13 pm »
Quote from: foil on February 22, 2014, 06:10:55 am
Yuo can also run the scan by going to My Computer, right click on drive, Properties, Tools, Check Disk.
Same deal, wouldn't scan while my computer was running and did nothing after rebooting.

Quote from: miauw62 on February 22, 2014, 04:14:48 am
Maybe you didn't properly accept to schedule the CHKDSK /F?
I don't see why it wouldn't work, really.
Me neither. It just doesn't want to go.
Here's what command prompt does when I try to chkdsk, for what its worth:

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Re: Corrupted Directory
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2014, 03:56:46 am »
check the resource monitor for disk activity, by all means your drive could be really screwed up.

Try restarting the computer into safe mode with command prompt and try using chkdsk from there.
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