Whenever one wants to run chkdsk on a partition he or she can not run that command. Such locking of the drive partition may be due to third party virus checker or disk monitor tool. 1]Click Start, go to Run menu and type services.msc and click OK.

Fixes a problem in which the ChkDsk.exe utility reports an error when you run this utility on a volume that is a multiple of 8 GB on a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 R2.

On a computer that is running Windows 7, you use the Chkdsk.exe program to schedule a disk check during the next system startup. However, the disk check does not start correctly.

This article introduces a hotfix that updates the Chkdsk.exe utility in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2. Currently, the Chkdsk.exe utility cannot repair certain corruption errors on the system volume.

Fixes an issue in which the chkdsk command doesn't run correctly in Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, or Windows Server 2012 R2.

You run the Chkdsk.exe tool to verify the integrity of the file system. In this scenario, the Chkdsk.exe tool incorrectly reports that there is a file system corruption.

In this scenario, chkdsk reports errors on the drive if the snapshot runs within the second phase of chkdsk. However, when the snapshot is complete, everything is fine again, and chkdsk does not report any errors.

When you attempt to start Windows XP, you may receive one of the following error messages: Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.

This warning message indicates that you should run the Chkdsk.exe utility to check the disk. A disk check is scheduled for the next time that you start the computer.

This article describes an issue in which the chkdsk command together with the spotfix option doesn't fix extended volumes corruption in Windows Server 2012 R2. A hotfix is available to fix this issue.