Steve, you have to read a little more carefully, the /D was for
chkntfs, not chkdsk.

Larry, the /D option restores checking for dirty disks, /X will
exclude checking (not recommended)


Displays or modifies the checking of disk at boot time.

CHKNTFS volume [...]
CHKNTFS /D
CHKNTFS /T[:time]
CHKNTFS /X volume [...]
CHKNTFS /C volume [...]

volume Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon),
mount point, or volume name.
/D Restores the machine to the default behaviour; all
drives are
checked at boot time and chkdsk is run on those that
are
dirty.
/T:time Changes the AUTOCHK initiation countdown time to the
specified amount of time in seconds. If time is not
specified, displays the current setting.
/X Excludes a drive from the default boot-time check.
Excluded
drives are not accumulated between command
invocations.
/C Schedules a drive to be checked at boot time; chkdsk
will run
if the drive is dirty.

If no switches are specified, CHKNTFS will display if the specified
drive is
dirty or scheduled to be checked on next reboot.



"Steve N." <me@here.now> wrote in message
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| Larry wrote:
| > On my C drive that is running WinXP Pro, I was moving files
between
| > directories. During the process my system burped causing the dirty
bit to get
| > set. Now chkdsk wants to run each time I start the system. The two
files that
| > are corrupt are JPG files in MY RECEIVED FILES directory and not
system
| > files. I can not delete them, rename them, copy over top of them,
or move
| > them. When I try anything with the files, an error message comes
up that the
| > files or folders are corrupt. I have read all kinds of information
in
| > different forums and nothing has worked to get rid of these files.
Chkdsk /f
| > does not fix the files. I have read that chkntfs /d will clear the
dirty bit,
| > but will that fix the corrupt files. It seems like the only fix is
to do a
| > backup of the C drive, reformat the C Drive, and copy all the
files back to
| > the hard drive except the corrupt files. If someone has some other
ideas, I
| > sure am listening. Thanks for your help.
|
| There is no /d switch for chkdsk.
|
| Definitely backup the files first. Then as David suggested run the
| maunfacturer's dsik diagnostics on it. If chkdsk /f (or /p from
recovery
| console) and/or /r even after repeated runs cannot reset the dirty
bit
| there isn't much else you can do but test the disk with the
| manufacturers utility, if it comes up clean then you will have to
| reformat and start over. There is no other reliable way that I know
of
| to clear a stubborn dirty bit and I've researched it faily well. In
fact
| if it were me, I wouldn't merely delete the partition and reformat
if
| the manufacturer test passes, I zero-fill the drive first, then
| partition and format.
|
| Steve N.
|