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[Stephen]

My computer is a couple of weeks old, and already I am getting the same re-occurring CHKDSK error message that I got on my old computer.

I run CHKDSK, and it tells it it "discovered free space marked as allocated in the master file table (MFT) bitmap". I run CHKDSK/F to no avail. I got this message consistently on my other computer as well. Does anyone know why this is occuring, and if there is a way to actually fix it?

[Andavari]

Try this command instead: chkdsk /r
Note: The full scan can take upwards of 60 minutes, 2 hours or longer depending upon the size of your hard disk.

If you're still having problems with it after that, time to call tech support!

[JAGO]

Bad sectors do corrupt and spread; is it the same hard drive? If not, I would start backing data up. The other possibility, if for whatever reason you're running FAT32, is that the filesystem itself is causing you issues. FAT32 is not journaled and I have heard all too often that certain files, and in some cases, parts of certain files, are being moved without notice.

[Stephen]

NTFS file system. New Hard Drive.

On another forum, several people have told me this is a know bug with Windows, which can be ignored.

[XPSP2]

Stephen, on Mar 8 2007, 08:00 AM, said:

NTFS file system. New Hard Drive.

On another forum, several people have told me this is a know bug with Windows, which can be ignored.

So there must be a link on which error messages to use and which to ignore then?

[hazelnut]

Apparently no action is needed.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn...2.mspx?mfr=true