scandisk problems

[Ximensions]

Hi

When I'm running scandisk it completes to the end of "phase 2", but then it says "Windows cannot complete disk check". Why is this?

Running WinXP Home.

[jman01pa]

Is "Windows cannot complete disk check" all it says or is there more info

[Bill in SD, CA]

Have you tried running chkdsk in the recovery console or safe mode?

Bill

[Bovon]

You say 'scandisk'... are you using FAT32 or NTFS format?..scandisk cannot be used with NTFS...chkdsk is scandisk modified to be used with NTFS.

[Ximensions]

oh okay..that's all it says, nothing more. And I've got NTFS, not FAT32...so that's probably the problem with scandisk. I ran chkdsk and it fixed some entries...and then I think it stops after verifying indexes...I'll try it in safe mode and see if it works.