Check disk on startup

[Guest]

Hi all,

When Windows XP shutdown abnormally shouldn't check the HD
drives for any errors on restart? This doesn't happen in my case. I can
recall such an action being taken by windows in the past. I tested this by
pressing the reset button while I was in the windows desktop. However, when
windows restarted it entered the desktop straight away, without performing a
disk check first. What is wrong?

Thank you in advance for your time.

Yannis

 

[Paul Smith]

When Windows XP shutdown abnormally shouldn't check the HD
drives for any errors on restart? This doesn't happen in my case. I can
recall such an action being taken by windows in the past. I tested this by
pressing the reset button while I was in the windows desktop. However,
when
windows restarted it entered the desktop straight away, without performing
a
disk check first. What is wrong?

If your drives are formatted using NTFS (they are by default on Windows XP)
then not having a disk check is perfectly normal as NTFS has built in error
protection.

If they're formatted using the older FAT32 as Windows 9x then you'll get
disk check kick in.

To determine how you're drives are formatted right-click on the drive icons
in My Computer and click properties, the file system will be labelled as
either NTFS or FAT32.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
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[Guest]

Hi Paul,

There are both NTFS. Thanks for taking the time to reply to my post.

Yannis

Ο χÏήστης "Paul Smith" έγγÏαψε:

 

[Star Fleet Admiral Q]

To add to Paul's post, yes NTFS is more robust and has built in file
recovery and usually unless the physical disk write was in progress where
the dirty bit would be set, 2k/XP/2k3 will boot normally. Again, this all
depends on whether the dirty bit is set, if not, nothing to worry about.

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