Chkdsk...

[Erwin1011]

My computer keeps telling me that one of my disks need to be checked. When I use checkdisk utility it tells me it is deactivated.

How and where do I activate it again?

[thaiflyer1]

I/m no expert but see if this helps..............

Reactivating Missing or Offline Disks

With LDM, every disk knows about every other disk in your system. When a disk can't be located, it does not disappear from Disk Management. It is simply designated "missing," as shown in Figure 3.4.

Figure 3.4 A drive designated as missing.

A Dynamic disk might be labeled missing when it is corrupted, powered down, or disconnected. Only Dynamic disks can be reactivated—not Basic disks.

Disks are labeled missing because other disks in the disk group share LDM information that expects the disk to be connected and functioning.

To reactivate a missing or offline disk, perform the following steps:

Open Disk Management.

Right-click the Offline disk whose status is missing and then click Reactivate Disk.

The disk should be titled Online after the disk is reactivated.

Edit.........Disk management can be found by going this route.......start>control panel>admin tools>computer management>storage...............i think anyway

Edited September 28, 2006 by thaiflyer1

[francois]

hi'

type in "run" chkdsk /F, then windows will tell you that it can be done on next reboot, say yes, and reboot, the /F option is here to permit read/write permission, otherway, if no options, it will be done in reaad only, so you light get result, but no change made

francois

ps; it's likely that you ahve some lost clusters ...

needs to put some order in there