[dba-Tech] Re: Chkdsk on startup

Steve Erbach erbachs at gmail.com
Thu Mar 10 07:08:45 CST 2005


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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