Article ID: 176646
Article Last Modified on 2/24/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Enterprise Edition
This article was previously published under Q176646
SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to open, delete or rename a file or folder using Windows NT Explorer, File Manager or a command prompt, you may receive one of the following error messages:
CAUSE
This behavior can occur if the file, folder or file system index (Master File Table [MFT] or File Allocation Table [FAT]) is damaged.
RESOLUTION
WARNING: When Chkdsk detects problems with the file system and attempts to repair the damage, data loss can occur. Microsoft does not recommend running Chkdsk with the /f command-line switch unless you have a full backup of your hard disk.
Attempt to repair the damaged file, folder or file system index using Chkdsk. To do so, follow these steps:
- Click Start, and then click Run.
- In the Open box, type chkdsk /f <drive>:, where <drive> is the letter of the drive on which the damaged file, folder or file system index exists.
- Click OK.
NOTE: If the hard disk is large, Chkdsk may take several minutes to several hours to complete.
MORE INFORMATION
Chkdsk saves each repaired file in the root folder as a File<nnnn>.chk file, and each repaired folder in the root folder as a Found.<nnn> folder, where <n> is a number.
For information about how to use Chkdsk, click Start, click Help, click the Index tab, type "chkdsk" (without quotation marks), and then double- click the "Chkdsk Command" topic.
For more information, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
ARTICLE-ID: 156571
TITLE : How to Perform Scandisk in Windows NT 4.0
ARTICLE-ID: ID: 160963
TITLE : CHKNTFS.EXE: What You Can Use It For
ARTICLE-ID: 161801
TITLE : Chkdsk reports an erroneous Event ID 41
Additional query words: corruption autochk
Keywords: kberrmsg kbprb kbsetup KB176646
