Can't defrag my external drive..defrag tool says run chkdsk\f!

Whats up with the defrag tool in xp media center My sony RZ44g pc is great except for the fact that one day I turned on my computer to discovered all by itself it decided to partition my (J:\) so now I also Have a (K:\) 6G,110G and 4G for recovery? Anyway everytime I try to defrag the 20Gigs of music and video files on my Kdrive I get a message saying to "run Chkdsk\F! I can't seem to figure out how to do that! Whats up and will I lose any data?

Stephen K. wrote:
> Whats up with the defrag tool in xp media center My sony RZ44g pc is
> great except for the fact that one day I turned on my computer to
> discovered all by itself it decided to partition my (J:\) so now I
> also Have a (K:\) 6G,110G and 4G for recovery? Anyway everytime I
> try to defrag the 20Gigs of music and video files on my Kdrive I get
> a message saying to "run Chkdsk\F! I can't seem to figure out how to
> do that! Whats up and will I lose any data?

Defrag is reporting that it suspects there are errors on the drive. To
run chkdsk on the drive, open a command prompt window and enter the
following command:

chkdsk [volume] /f

Replace [volume] with the drive letter (ex: j that you want to check for
errors. The /f switch tells chkdsk to fix any errors that it finds. Run
chkdsk /? for a list of all the available options.
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP MCE
http://support.telop.org

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