XP's CHKDSK: problem found or not?

[TwoRails]

When running CHKDSK in Win XP Pro, I have noticed that sometimes it will state no problems found, and other times it sez nothing.

Here's an example (most of the non-related verbage taken out):

blah blah... Security descriptor verification completed. Windows has checked the file system and found no problems. 61440560 KB total disk space. blah blah... (next drive: ) Security descriptor verification completed. 96735365 KB total disk space. blah blah...

So, does the second drive example have a problem or not? The first drive example sez no prolems, the 2nd doesn't say one way or the other...

TIA

[Mesaeus]

I have a hunch your second drive (or partition) is NTFS, while the first is FAT32. The second drive mentions security descriptors, a feature of NTFS. It isn't going to check for security descriptors on a non NTFS drive/partition.

Edit : Damn, looks like I misread your post. Could you please post the full text of both scans ? All this bla bla is making it hard for me to follow

[TwoRails]

Hi Mesaeus,

Yes, all drives are NTFS. I have 4 physical drives broken into 9 logical drives. Three do Not show "no problems found" and 6 do. I checked and it doesn't matter if it's the first "drive" on the physical drive; the examples below come from the first "drive" on two different physical drives.

As requested, here are two full examples:

C:\>chkdsk g: /v The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is G-160GIG-1-4. WARNING! F parameter not specified. Running CHKDSK in read-only mode. CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)... File verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)... Index verification completed. Detected minor inconsistencies on the drive. This is not a corruption. CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)... Security descriptor verification completed. 47431408 KB total disk space. 17839588 KB in 29035 files. 10884 KB in 986 indexes. 0 KB in bad sectors. 181856 KB in use by the system. 65536 KB occupied by the log file. 29399080 KB available on disk. 4096 bytes in each allocation unit. 11857852 total allocation units on disk. 7349770 allocation units available on disk.

C:\>chkdsk h: /v The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is H-120gig-1-2. WARNING! F parameter not specified. Running CHKDSK in read-only mode. CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)... File verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)... Index verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)... Security descriptor verification completed. Windows has checked the file system and found no problems. 74951225 KB total disk space. 49002876 KB in 210 files. 112 KB in 40 indexes. 0 KB in bad sectors. 103625 KB in use by the system. 65536 KB occupied by the log file. 25844612 KB available on disk. 4096 bytes in each allocation unit. 18737806 total allocation units on disk. 6461153 allocation units available on disk.

[WhatsThisBoxFor?]

On g: checkdisk: Detected minor inconsistencies on the drive. This is not a corruption.

It does not do this on h:, I assume this is counted as a problem.

[TwoRails]

Thanks, Mesaeus, for wanting a complete text, and good catch, WhatsThisBoxFor? !

My batch file originally did Not have the "/v" switch. I just added it for the text that Mesaeus asked for, but (blush blush) I didn't take the time to read it! Dooh!

I just ran CHKDSK with the "/F" switch and, voila, all drives now report "no problem found" !

So, if it doesn't say "no problem found" .... there are problems!

Thanks for figuring it out folks!