Re: I Can't Fix Problems on My System Drive

On 9/20/09, the entity Keith Russell wrote this:
> Hi, everyone. I hope someone here can help me, because I'm at a total
> loss.

> Zonealarm is giving me repeated error messages saying that I have a
> corrupted file on my drive and that I need to run chkdsk.

> Of course, when I attempt to run chkdsk on my system drive, it tells me
> that I need to reboot and it will run chkdsk before loading Windows.
> Unfortunately, it's not doing this.

> I am currently dual booting between Vista Ultimate and Linux (Ubuntu
> variant) and have the Linux GRUB boot manager installed. I'm wondering
> if this is what is keeping chkdsk from running when I restart. To find
> out for sure, I would like to remove GRUB completely, so that when I
> reboot, the system will automatically run Windows with no interruption
> (except for chkdsk, hopefully).

> Do I need to somehow format the MBR? If so, how do I do this? I haven't
> done this kind of thing for so long that I have no club. Can someone
> help me get rid of GRUB--please?

> Thanks very, very much in advance.

> --
> Keith

You could just boot Windows to the safe-mode (F8) command prompt and
manually run chkdsk from that.

DO chkdsk /? to get the command line options.

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