Make sure nothing is accessing anything on that drive and try again. The solution is easier, though: close those programs. If you have Windows File Explorer open on drive D:, or perhaps have a document open on that disk, the same situation applies.
While getting this error on the Windows drive is the most common, it’s certainly not the only case. In fact, Windows has several files open, including the files containing the registry, the system paging file, and the executable files that make up Windows itself.Ĭhkdsk cannot fix or repair a drive from which Windows was loaded while Windows is running. “But I have no programs running!” I hear you say. If any other program has a file open on the disk, it’s considered to be “in use”, and Chkdsk can’t get the exclusive access it needs. ( Volume, in the error message, is simply another term for disk, or more correctly, partition process is another word for program.) In order for Chkdsk to be able to fix or repair a disk, it needs to be the only program accessing that disk. For more about what it does and why it matters, see Chkdsk: What Is It and How Do I Run It? … because the volume is in use by another process Chkdsk is, as its name implies, a disk-repair utility included in Windows.
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