Volume D: is dirty. Check Disk Local Disk d does not solve the problem

Whenever I start my computer under WindowsXP SP3, chkdsk runs indicating that the D: Volume is dirty.  He noted no other problems.  I tried to run check disk Local Disk d with two checked options, but it does not solve the probem.  What should I try next?

That is right.

First of all, let us look at the ideas of the Microsoft support engineer:

I would never not follow the suggestion of Microsoft Engineer in method 1.  This idea makes no sense.

The Microsoft Support Engineer method 2 does not work for you (or most people), unless you have a XP installation CD bootable authentic with the same Service Pack as your installation.  In your case, you would need a true bootable XP with SP3 installation CD and most of the people do not have such an animal.  It is therefore extremely unlikely that will help you at all - and if your file system is damaged or dirty, I of course never suggests that in the first place until your file system is straightened.

Volumes that contain file system errors is known as "Sales". When a volume is dirty, he has known file system errors, and you must run chkdsk on the volume to repair the problem.

When XP starts, it automatically checks the on each volume's dirty bit (C, D, E, etc.), and if any volume is dirty, XP will automatically run chkdsk/p on next reboot on the volumes in an attempt to clear the dirty bit.  Which does not clear the bit of impurity or it may take several passes.

If the volume dirty bit, one is set, this indicates that the file system may be in an inconsistent state. The dirty bit can be set because the volume is online and has some remarkable changes, because changes have been made to the volume and the computer shutdown until the changes have been committed to disk, or because corruption has been detected on the volume. If the dirty bit is set when the computer restarts, chkdsk runs to verify the consistency of the volume.

Whenever you start a computer that is running one of the Windows XP operating system or the Windows Server 2003 family, autochk.exe is called by the kernel for all volumes to check if the volume dirty bit is set. If the dirty bit is set, autochk performs an immediate chkdsk /f on that volume. Chkdsk /f verifies file system integrity and attempts to fix any problems with the volume.

A simple power interruption is something that could result in a disc was marked as dirty.  Have you had a power failure these days?

You can query the dirty bit on a volume from the command prompt window.  Here's how:

Click Start, run and enter in the box:

cmd

Click OK to open the command prompt window.

For example, to query the bit of impurity on drive D, type:

fsutil dirty query D:

The sample output:
Volume D: is dirty
Volume D: is not dirty

Type "exit" to close the command prompt window.

You can not enter any command to clear the dirty bit - only chkdsk /r or chkdsk/p can clear the dirty bit.

When chkdsk runs automatically restart either because XP thinks he needs to (perhaps your NTFS volume has been marked as dirty) or you decide to schedule the chkdsk with error correction during the next reboot, the results appear in the viewing Application event log.  You should look there for the chkdsk log to see what happened and no problems after running chkdsk.

To view the logs in Event Viewer, click Start, settings, Control Panel, administrative tools, event viewer.

A shortcut to the event viewer is to click on start, run and enter in the box:

%SystemRoot%\system32\eventvwr.msc

Click OK to launch the event viewer.

Search the Application log for an event originally by Winlogon, something like:

Event type: Information
Event source: Winlogon
Event category: no
Event ID: 1001
Date: 04/08/2010
Time: 11:25:57
Description:
Checking file system on C:

The type of the file system is NTFS.

One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You
may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended
that you continue.

Windows will now check the disk.

Cleaning of minor inconsistencies on the drive.
CHKDSK checks Usn Journal...
Audit of the USN Journal is complete.

39070048 KB total disk space.
28017948 KB in 100571 files.
56540 Ko 10556 index.
0 KB in bad sectors.
236440 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
10759120 KB available on disk.

4 096 bytes in each allocation unit.
9767512 total allocation on the drive units.
2689780 allocation units available on disk.

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

The dirty bit fade not until chkdsk /r (or chkdsk/p) tracks clean when the system reboots (as in the example) or when you run chkdsk /r from the XP Recovery Console.

Many times, the best remedy is to just run chkdsk /r from the XP Recovery Console so you can actually see what it does.  Sometimes, this also seems to be the only way to clear the dirty bit and this way you can see what he does.

Note that you can not also question the bit of impurity of the Recovery Console and you can't turn off the bit of impurity to enter any command.

If for some reason chkdsk will not erase the dirty, you can simply say XP never check the volume dirty bit, but who will not fix your fault of potentially hard drive, or it could be the drive just need to have chkdsk run on that (sometimes you need to run it more than once) or you will have to think about replacing the drive.

If you have a genuine XP bootable installation CD, you can boot into XP from that (even a SP2) Recovery Console CD will work and run chkdsk /r manually from there and repeat until chkdsk /r is clean.

If you have a genuine XP bootable installation CD, say so and I'll post instructions so you can make a CD of XP Recovery Console and how to run chkdsk from there.   There is no required XP media.

I wonder why it is that I have never see an engineer Microsoft Support post instructions on how to make a bootable CD of XP (no XP media required) Recovery Console... probably because there is no KB article for them to post.

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