Can't Run Chkdsk

Published on February 19, 2006 By PoSmedley In Personal Computing

Has anyone run across this little problem? It just started happening on my PC.
Err Msg: "Cannot Open the Volume for Direct Access" When You Start ...

I can no longer check for file system errors. I looked through Microsofts info, and the only dirext reference to it I could find concern win200, or virus or disk monitoring software, neither of which I have changed recently. I have run all my adware/virus scans and done all the usual stuff you would do, but I am simply locked out of this task. Any hardcore geeks out there no what's up?

Comments (Page 3)

yrag

on Feb 19, 2006

Yes.....

PoSmedley

on Feb 20, 2006

okay. Uninstalling.

PoSmedley

on Feb 20, 2006

I'm not worthy.

yrag

on Feb 20, 2006

...you're probably right......

Have a nice night.

PoSmedley

on Feb 20, 2006

AtlanticCanadianScot

on Feb 20, 2006

Po...if I may add, it appears you are in overkill mode w regards to spyware & trojan protection...if you have Spyware Doctor, which is what I use & is absolutely superb for ridding one's system of every trojan & parasasite know to man & has 'on guard' protection, why would you top off with all those other freebie apps - I would recommend using just the Spyware Doctor & you will have more than adequate protection & absolutely will not cause the aforementioned problem that lead to this thread

PoSmedley

on Feb 20, 2006

After seeing them all 'listed'. I might agree on the overkill bit. However, all this started 'after' I upgraded to the newest version of Spyware Doctor. What also started happening was this stupid little spyware thing that it and Adaware kept detecting. I am sorry I can't rememeber what it was, but SpyDoc would list it as this big threat and Adaware would refer to it as kind of a decoy that was designed to make you think you had spyware and force you into 'buying the full version' of a product to remove it. It never occured to me it could be Spyware Doctor sneaking the lil bugger in on the upgrade.

Looking back, it was when I followed some forum advice on how to manually remove it (Cause nothing else would or could) that I started having the dskchk problem.

I hate to tell you, becuase you like Spyware Doctor so much, but yrag was right. I uninstalled Spyware Doctor and the problem is solved.

As for too many spyware programs...what info I could gather was that Virus programs have the problem with conflicting with one another, not the adaware. This I gathered a little while ago, when I made a Hijack This post on SWI forums and was told to knock my virus prog's down to just one, and they encouraged me to get another adware prog (Spyware Blaster), explaining it was okay. The reason I have all I do is that I have often found that they don't all catch and see what each other do.

AtlanticCanadianScot

on Feb 20, 2006

food for thought guys....thx for the feedback Po...as long as your system is functioning to full capacity 'it's all good'..we all know what our systems need to 'balance' & function well - & yeah, my old ISP security suite 'Zero Knowledge' that had a superb spam sweeper/blocker & anti-virus protection suite for my previous Dell Laptop was 'sugar in the gastank' on my new Toshiba Satellite laptop & I found through trial & error & many a blue crash screen that the only security suite I could use that was effective & functional on my new system was the Kaspersky Security Suite from Russia

kona0197

on Feb 20, 2006

MS antispyware also has real time scanning Po'smedley. I use that and adware. I rarely get spyware.

PoSmedley

on Feb 20, 2006

MS antispyware also has real time scanning

I know. I just switched over to Windows Defender.

barkway

on Aug 17, 2006

I have tried everything here including this (have same problem) and at startup I get "autochk cannot be found"

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