Mister Pink Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 Trying to convert my HDD to NTFS but I get this message in the CMD. This drive is dirty and cannot be converted. You will need to clear the dirty bit on this drive by running CHKDSK /F or allowing AUTOCHK to run on it the next time you reboot. Any body give me some help with that. I have a lot of stuff on my HDD and I've nowhere to back it up and people converting from FAT32 to NTFS have been seemingly OK doing so without losing their data. Now, I know it's always a risk and I can back up the essential files. Is OK to run CHKDSK or AUTOCHK? Will it harm my data? ＲＵＢＢΣＲ░Ｊ♢ＨＮＮＹ （スオッ） Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d00d Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 chkdsk /f is just a read of your disk fixing any corruptions it finds while doing so. It shouldn't erase anything. I say shouldn't, only because with computers you just can't be sure. But in my experience it never has. The reason it asks to do it on a restart is that the disk has to be locked. If it isn't locked, it does it on bootup before it has a chance to be used. Feel free to get a second opinion but I'd say its perfectly safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf68k Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 It's safe. In fact running chkdsk /f from time to time is a good thing to do to find and fix errors you didn't know you had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Pink Posted July 9, 2011 Author Share Posted July 9, 2011 Ok, thanks for the help guys. I'm going to try sort it out today. ＲＵＢＢΣＲ░Ｊ♢ＨＮＮＹ （スオッ） Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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