how to remove the ntfs dirty flag?
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Gregor Mitsch
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Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 3:18 am    Post subject: how to remove the ntfs dirty flag? Reply with quote
Hi!

I got one harddrive with two NTFS partions. After a crash of WindowsXP I
had to reboot and a bluescreen with chkdsk appears. C: and D: were
scanned. After another reboot only D: was checked again. Now every time
I boot the computer chkdsk wants to check my D: drive.

Since the drive is very big (70 GB) this takes a lot of time.
Furthermore I can't defrag the drive because it is marked as "dirty" (as
described above). How can I remove this "dirty flag" since I know from
chkdsk that the drive is clean? Apparently chkdsk won't remove it. Is
there another way to do so?

Thanks for any answer.

Gregor
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Phil Barila
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Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 8:18 am    Post subject: Re: how to remove the ntfs dirty flag? Reply with quote
"Gregor Mitsch" <mitsch@ra.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote in message
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Quote:
Hi!

I got one harddrive with two NTFS partions. After a crash of WindowsXP I
had to reboot and a bluescreen with chkdsk appears. C: and D: were
scanned. After another reboot only D: was checked again. Now every time
I boot the computer chkdsk wants to check my D: drive.

Since the drive is very big (70 GB) this takes a lot of time.
Furthermore I can't defrag the drive because it is marked as "dirty" (as
described above). How can I remove this "dirty flag" since I know from
chkdsk that the drive is clean? Apparently chkdsk won't remove it. Is
there another way to do so?

Try booting from the CD, start up the Repair Console, and run chkdsk from
there.

Phil
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