Err Msg: CHKDSK Is Correcting a Minor Error in File 5

 Last reviewed: January 16, 1996
Article ID: Q140469
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Windows NT Workstation versions 3.5 and 3.51
  • Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 3.5 and 3.51

SUMMARY

When either CHKDSK or AUTOCHK is running, you receive the following error message: 

   CHKDSK is correcting a minor error in file 5
The "minor error" that CHKDSK or AUTOCHK is reporting is usually because a directory entry for a file does not match the MFT entry for the file with respect to an attribute like the file size or date/time stamp. "File 5" refers to the root directory of the partition and not a specific file.

MORE INFORMATION

If this error occurs from a mounted volume, then you are getting the error because the file system takes time updating the duplicated information in the directory entry. Until that happens it does not match the information stored with the file record.

This error message will occur often with the pagefile since it is always open and may conflict with the duplicated MFT if the system was not shutdown normally.

If this problem happens consistently, the hardware should be checked for inconsistencies.

KBCategory: kbusage
KBSubcategory: ntutil
Additional reference words: prodnt 3.50 3.51

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Last reviewed: January 16, 1996
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