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I Can't Fix Problems on My System Drive

Discussion in 'Windows Vista' started by Keith Russell, Sep 20, 2009.

  1. Keith Russell

    Keith Russell Guest

    Hi, everyone. I hope someone here can help me, because I'm at a total
    loss.

    Zonealarm is giving me repeated error messages saying that I have a
    corrupted file on my drive and that I need to run chkdsk.

    Of course, when I attempt to run chkdsk on my system drive, it tells me
    that I need to reboot and it will run chkdsk before loading Windows.
    Unfortunately, it's not doing this.

    I am currently dual booting between Vista Ultimate and Linux (Ubuntu
    variant) and have the Linux GRUB boot manager installed. I'm wondering
    if this is what is keeping chkdsk from running when I restart. To find
    out for sure, I would like to remove GRUB completely, so that when I
    reboot, the system will automatically run Windows with no interruption
    (except for chkdsk, hopefully).

    Do I need to somehow format the MBR? If so, how do I do this? I haven't
    done this kind of thing for so long that I have no club. Can someone
    help me get rid of GRUB--please?

    Thanks very, very much in advance.

    --
    Keith

    --
    Keith Russell
    keithr@pobox.com
     
    Keith Russell, Sep 20, 2009
    #1
  3. Jon

    Jon Guest

    Yeah you'd need to 'reformat' the MBR as you say. If you've got a Vista DVD,
    then you can boot from that and run one of the diagnostic startup tools. Or
    you can do it from the command line - 'bootsect.exe' I think.

    --
    Jon


    "Keith Russell" <1s3l-wukl@xemaps.com> wrote in message
    news:pikdb5915su9tico9uds9rl2k9a3btj9kn@4ax.com...<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
    > Hi, everyone. I hope someone here can help me, because I'm at a total
    > loss.
    >
    > Zonealarm is giving me repeated error messages saying that I have a
    > corrupted file on my drive and that I need to run chkdsk.
    >
    > Of course, when I attempt to run chkdsk on my system drive, it tells me
    > that I need to reboot and it will run chkdsk before loading Windows.
    > Unfortunately, it's not doing this.
    >
    > I am currently dual booting between Vista Ultimate and Linux (Ubuntu
    > variant) and have the Linux GRUB boot manager installed. I'm wondering
    > if this is what is keeping chkdsk from running when I restart. To find
    > out for sure, I would like to remove GRUB completely, so that when I
    > reboot, the system will automatically run Windows with no interruption
    > (except for chkdsk, hopefully).
    >
    > Do I need to somehow format the MBR? If so, how do I do this? I haven't
    > done this kind of thing for so long that I have no club. Can someone
    > help me get rid of GRUB--please?
    >
    > Thanks very, very much in advance.
    >
    > --
    > Keith
    >
    > --
    > Keith Russell
    > keithr@pobox.com <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
     
    Jon, Sep 21, 2009
    #2
  4. Jon

    Jon Guest

    "Jon" <Email_Address@SomewhereOrOther.com> wrote in message
    news:%23BexDXrOKHA.5084@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
    > Yeah you'd need to 'reformat' the MBR as you say. If you've got a Vista
    > DVD, then you can boot from that and run one of the diagnostic startup
    > tools. Or you can do it from the command line - 'bootsect.exe' I think.
    ><!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->


    Or bootrec.exe even...

    bootrec.exe /fixmbr
    bootrec.exe /fixboot
    bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd

    --
    Jon
     
    Jon, Sep 21, 2009
    #3
  5. Gene E. Bloch

    Gene E. Bloch Guest

    On 9/20/09, the entity Keith Russell wrote this:<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
    > Hi, everyone. I hope someone here can help me, because I'm at a total
    > loss.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
    <!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
    > Zonealarm is giving me repeated error messages saying that I have a
    > corrupted file on my drive and that I need to run chkdsk.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
    <!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
    > Of course, when I attempt to run chkdsk on my system drive, it tells me
    > that I need to reboot and it will run chkdsk before loading Windows.
    > Unfortunately, it's not doing this.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
    <!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
    > I am currently dual booting between Vista Ultimate and Linux (Ubuntu
    > variant) and have the Linux GRUB boot manager installed. I'm wondering
    > if this is what is keeping chkdsk from running when I restart. To find
    > out for sure, I would like to remove GRUB completely, so that when I
    > reboot, the system will automatically run Windows with no interruption
    > (except for chkdsk, hopefully).<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
    <!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
    > Do I need to somehow format the MBR? If so, how do I do this? I haven't
    > done this kind of thing for so long that I have no club. Can someone
    > help me get rid of GRUB--please?<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
    <!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
    > Thanks very, very much in advance.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
    <!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
    > --
    > Keith<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

    You could just boot Windows to the safe-mode (F8) command prompt and
    manually run chkdsk from that.

    DO chkdsk /? to get the command line options.

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    Gene Bloch 650.366.4267 lettersatblochg.com
     
    Gene E. Bloch, Sep 21, 2009
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