Readable file record segment is not writeable

Posted by admin on June 11, 2009 under 3-Tech Tips |

After one of the many times my Vista Business 32 laptop locked up, it didn’t recover too gracefully. On bootup I got the infamous “One of your disks needs to be checked…” errors. That was the good news. The bad news was that chkdsk would not complete running on startup. During stage one, I got the message: Deleting corrupt attribute record …. from file record segment … Readable file record segment 60195 is not writeable.

No matter how I tried to run chkdsk, it would not complete. I ran a disk sector test and the hard drive came out clean. I ran Norton Disk Doctor and it did nothing. Extensive googling on the error yielded little, so I tried googling on various parts of the error phrases.

In the end, it turned out the solution was pretty simple. Apparently, even when running chkdsk on startup, the C: drive may be locked. So I booted to the recovery CD, which had a command prompt option. Then running good old-fashioned chkdsk C: /f from the DOS prompt fixed my drive.