windowsXP homeedition, faults according CHKDSK

[Jornada]

After defrag with WindowsXP I get the message 'cannot defrag all files'.

If I check windowsxp with CHKDSK /p it tells me that there are one or more faults find on the volume.
It seems to be 'open files'' .
After CHKDSK /R the faults are gone.

But the next time I receive the same fault again.
What can be the problem?

Is it hardware (C-drive) or is it software.

My C-drive is a 80Gb Maxtor, formatted en partitioned with Maxblast3 program of Maxtor.
Maxtor diagnose shows all tests passed.

Who recognize this problem and can help me out?

Thanks in advance, Con

[AzKidd69]

have you tried running a 3rd part SMART analyzer to make sure it's not the HDD? I had a mysterious issue with my xp pro box that ended up being a hardware failure BUT the maxtor diag did NOT say the drive was bad until the day after I got my RMA'd drive

I think I used a program called active smart to see the smart info and just let it run in the tray

[Jornada]

I will try, thanks so far, I will let you know the results.

[nathannathan]

Hi, I had a similar problem, and it was on fat 32 not ntfs file system so this could have been part of the problem. But i found if i did a disc scan "which is done different in xp to 98" first it seemed to cure the problem.
Disc scan on xp right click on c drive go to properties and tools and click on disc scan, tick both options and restart. Takes about 1 hour so do this when you don't need the pc for a while.
One more thing this pc that i had a problem with use to be part of a network and at start up it was looking for its friends so in my case if i didn't wait 5 mins or so before i did a job like defrag this cause the problem too. Good luck