Check Disk During Start Up

[C. F. Jacks]

As a relative new-comer to XP, I am still "learning how"
and so my question/problem may just prove such to be true!
But here goes - for reasons most unclear to me, every time
I boot-up I find that Check Disk automatically starts to
check each disk (beginning with D, not C!) even though the
previous shut-down was perfectly normal! I am used to
Win98 insisting on running Scandisk whenever there was a
non-normal shut-down but this is a brand new problem to
me. It it were something that happened just "once in a
while" I would not be asking but every time! Not from my
installing XP (which I did finally three months ago)but
just for the past week! Any help/suggestions would be
very greatly appreciated!

Thanks.

 

[Rich Barry]

At the command prompt (Run: command), type CHKNTFS /X C:

 

[One Eye]

Dunno but are you having any other problems ?
You can remove scheduled ChkDsk's by removing entries from this reg key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager, in the
BootExecute Key if no scans are scheduled it should mostlikely just read
autocheck autochk* , If scans are scheduled there will be extra commands.
Delete everything so it just reads autocheck autochk*.
The reason i asked if you are having other problems is i had a similar
problem which related to a bad stick of ram.

 

[C. F. Jacks]

Thanks for the suggestion, which I will check out. But to
answer your question about memory chips - no, I have had
no problem at all there ... but thanks for the
thought/idea.

 

[C. F. Jacks]

O.K. ... I am back, having finally found what you were
talking about ... it took me a while since I am still
learning my way around XP. What I found was the following:
autocheck autochk /k :c*" ... I have no idea what the /k
is for ... do you? Do you mean I should/can just remove
the "/k :c" to fix this problem? How did this extension
get added on in the first place? Or do you know? Thanks
for you continued attention.

C. F. Jacks

 

[One Eye]

Ya just remove the extra so it reads autocheck autochk* and that will stop
it from running chkdsk on everyboot.