Checkdisk and Defrag in VPC 1

[kenche0820]

Hi guys,

Does it make any sense to run checkdisk and defrag inside the guest OS, or should we only run these utilities in the host OS? I'm not sure if the guest OS would have access to the physical disk outside of its allocated space, so I'm wondering what happens if you run checkdisk or defrag there.

Actually, I'm getting the error "The file or directory C:\$Mft is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility." in the guest OS. Any help on that error would be greatly appreciated also.

Thanks,

Ken

 

[BobComer]

While you should do defrag in a guest OS unless you are going to compact the disk, chkdsk definitely makes sense in a guest, especially if you get that corrupt message.

That particular corrupt message is usually caused by VPC not being able to write to the disk properly at some time in the past...

- Bob Comer