Windows 2000 Chkdsk Management

If you receive a “Disk cannot be locked” error message when you try to run Chkdsk, verify that all services and tools that have access to the drive are stopped, and then try to run Chkdsk again. Any service or program that is running and has an open handle to the drive can prevent Chkdsk from running. Windows 2000 can try to close the open handles to the shared drive by using the /x command-line switch. If you are prompted to close open handles, press Y.

If Handles Remain Open, or If the Cluster Contains a Single Shared Drive

1. 
   Quit all programs, stop all cluster-unaware applications, and log on to the server with an account that has Administrative rights.
   
2. 
   Start Cluster Administrator, right-click the cluster name, and then click Properties.
   
3. 
   Click the Quorum tab, and then note which drive is the quorum disk. If the drive on which you want to run Chkdsk contains the quorum log, temporarily move the quorum disk to another shared drive.
   
4. 
   Copy FSUtil.exe from the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder on a Windows XP–or-later-based computer to the local drive on the Windows 2000–based computer.
   
5. 
   On the Windows 2000–based computer, at a command prompt, change to the folder that contains FSUtil.exe, and then type the following command, where drive is the shared drive:
   

6. 
   Use Cluster Administrator to find the group that contains the shared drive on which you want to run Chkdsk.
   
7. 
   Right-click the group name, and then click Take Offline. This takes the whole group offline, including the shared drive, and closes all the handles to the physical drive.
   
8. 
   Right-click the Physical Disk resource, and then click Bring Online.
   

9. 
   After Chkdsk runs on the volume, bring all other resources in the group online.