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Chkdsk Reports an Erroneous Event ID 41

Article ID: 161801

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q161801

SYMPTOMS

When you run chkdsk <drive_letter>: /f, you may receive the following event in the system event log:

Event ID: 41
Source: Disk
Description: The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the device Device\Harddiskx\Partitionx with label "xxxx".

NOTE: The "xxxx" is the volume label of the partition.

CAUSE

Chkdsk reports the wrong text message in the event log. The message should read:

   "Autochk will be run on this volume because user has selected it."

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 4.0. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: prodnt

Keywords: kbbug kbpending KB161801