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    System Restore problem on inspiron 1520!!! Please help!!!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by DYNAMITE, Oct 16, 2007.

  1. DYNAMITE

    DYNAMITE Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm trying to do a System Restore on my laptop, but when I try, it tells me that there is corrupted data on the drive, and to run a Chkdsk. So when I try to do that, I tell it to schedule one for the next boot. But it never runs. Any ideas?

    Thank you guys for the help!
     
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    You can try running chkdsk from your Vista DVD.

    I'm not sure if the disc that ships with Dell computers is different, but here are instructions using a regular Vista disc.
    http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=6565
     
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    Ok I did everything you sugested but it wouldnt let me. As soon as I put it into the command line prompt it said:

    The type of file system is NTFS. cannot lock current drive. Windows can't run disk checking on this volume becuase it is write protected.
     
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    chelet, Oct 16, 2007
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