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O.P. CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated
This is an error where windows reports that freespace is being reported in the MFT sectors

this is a neglible problem as the when the mft removes references the mft reports the old reference as free space

doing a boot time defrag to defrag and clean up old mft references using perfect disk 7.0 can cure this

i myself have the problem, where it tells me to restart and do an offline chkdsk

offline chkdsk doesn;t report a problem but if you do a windows chkdsk 2x in a row the first reports an error where as the second reports no problems

this is a windows bug found in 2000/XP on ntfs drives, and Server 2003 appears to have this problem fixed

microsoft have replied to over thousand cases of this by saying its a bug that cannot be fixed

sometimes this error causes files to be misplaced as well causing the file to disappear off the drive

if this is happening to you download the trial of perfect disk 7.0 and defrag and clean the mft

i actually started getting this error after removing 2 files each 4.38 gbs in size

the 8gb chunk removed from the drive results in a large amount of space marked as free in the mft

other causes of this are also Norton Goback becoz of the way it handles its own repair file

before i removed the 2 files chkdsk reported no problems at all

chkntfs also reports a clean drive :P

hope this helps anyone who has the CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated problem
04-15-2005 04:46 AM
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CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated - by squall_leonhart69r on 04-15-2005 at 04:46 AM
RE: CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated - by squall_leonhart69r on 04-16-2005 at 11:32 PM


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