[dba-Tech] Re: Chkdsk on startup

Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com
Thu Mar 10 07:42:22 CST 2005


http://www.infocellar.com/winxp/disk-checking.htm

see above for some background and below for the answer...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/default.asp?url=/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/fsutil_dirty.asp




On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:08:45 -0600, Steve Erbach <erbachs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, gang!
> 
> Any ideas on this? It's annoying more than anything, but it sure seems
> as if this is something that a guy could turn off. Any ideas?
> 
> Steve Erbach
> Neenah, WI
> 
> 
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:27:55 -0600, Steve Erbach <erbachs at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear Group,
> >
> > A few weeks ago, my old workstation (667 MHz, Windows XP Pro w/ SP-2,
> > 384 MB RAM) decided that one of the 3 hard disks was iffy and ran
> > scandisk and chkdsk right after the the blue Windows progress bar goes
> > away. I have since run Gibson Research's SpinRite 6 on it three times
> > (fine product, by the way) without finding anything untoward. My
> > question is, how do I turn off the automatic scandisk/chkdsk
> > combination? I can press the space bar to skip the disk checking, but
> > where do I look to disable the automatic checking? Is it a Service?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Steve Erbach
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