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Q. When you run a database consistency check of a SQL Server database on Windows Server 2003, chkdsk reports 'Errors found'?

When you run dbcc checkdb or dbcc checkalloc against a SQL Server 2005 database on a Windows Server 2003 NTFS file system partition and then run chkdsk on that same partition, you receive:

Errors found. CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode.

This is typically a reporting error, and if it is, may be safely ignored. To verify that it is a reporting error:

1. Open a CMD.EXE window.

2. Type chkdsk /v <Drive_Letter:> and press Enter, where <Drive_Letter:> is the drive where chkdsk reported the error.

3. Verify that your output is similar to:

The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is SPARSE.
WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.
CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Correcting sparse file record segment 29.
Index verification completed.
Errors found. CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode.
4. If you receive the Correcting sparse file record segment 29. line, this is a reporting error and you can safely ignore this error.


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