CHKDSK is coming up with errors.

[noobiesearcher]

When I run chkdsk it does the following

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Bob>chkdsk
The type of the file system is NTFS.

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 recovering lost files.
Recovering orphaned file 00010005.ci (155864) into directory file 10837.
Recovering orphaned file 00010005.dir (155879) into directory file 10837.
Recovering orphaned file CiFLfffd.000 (156106) into directory file 10837.
Recovering orphaned file CiFLfffd.001 (156134) into directory file 10837.
Recovering orphaned file CiFLfffd.002 (156138) into directory file 10837.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
Usn Journal verification completed.
Correcting errors in the master file table's (MFT) BITMAP attribute.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.

58548892 KB total disk space.
55965120 KB in 198713 files.
67156 KB in 10339 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
308184 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
2208432 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
14637223 total allocation units on disk.
552108 allocation units available on disk.

C:\Documents and Settings\Bob>chkdsk /f
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N) n

C:\Documents and Settings\Bob>



Even if I ask the system to check the volume upon restart, the whole process is repeated The next time I run CHKDSK.

[glc]

Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.

You need to do that. You also need to answer YES here:

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N) n

Your hard drive is way too full - it's just going to continue to corrupt. You need to keep at least 15% free space on it or it won't even defrag.

[noobiesearcher]

[QUOTE=glc]You need to do that. You also need to answer YES here:QUOTE]

I did, but afterwards, the same problem crops up. But thank you for the spacial suggestion, I will back up my hard drive and delete some files I don't use to often (I have a 320 GB external drive)

[glc]

At today's prices, buy a bigger drive. 320's are under $100 now.