Chkdsk autoruns, How to stop it

[Guest]

Every time I turn on my computer, chkdsk auto checks my second hard drive.
I have gone to PC Docotr and run a complete check of the drive and it is
fine, I have looked at it in device manager abnd it says it is working
properly.
How do I shut this autochecking off and how did it get turned on. I
remeber in the days where you had MS-Dos i ue to run chkdsk but what has
created it to do so in Windows XP multi-media Edition/
Thanks in advance for the help.
Oh! it is a Sata WD 250 gb and the primary is a sata as well and they
are NOT hooked up as a RAID system just C, D, and another WD 250 GB as E,
been working fine for about 8 months and then it startiing autochecking 4
days ago. I even went to a restore point prior to when it started and it
still does. Must be a Toggle switch somewhere J/K

I ran complete scans and it still does it.
I tried to do a Defrag on Drive D and it told me it was in use and to please
tun chkdsk f/
I went to the prompt and this is the message that I got.
"Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator>chkdsk /f
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)"


If I select YES! nothing changes.

 

[Alan]

Every time I turn on my computer, chkdsk auto checks my second hard drive.
I have gone to PC Docotr and run a complete check of the drive and it is
fine, I have looked at it in device manager abnd it says it is working
properly.
How do I shut this autochecking off and how did it get turned on. I
remeber in the days where you had MS-Dos i ue to run chkdsk but what has
created it to do so in Windows XP multi-media Edition/
Thanks in advance for the help.
Oh! it is a Sata WD 250 gb and the primary is a sata as well and they
are NOT hooked up as a RAID system just C, D, and another WD 250 GB as E,
been working fine for about 8 months and then it startiing autochecking 4
days ago. I even went to a restore point prior to when it started and it
still does. Must be a Toggle switch somewhere J/K

I ran complete scans and it still does it.
I tried to do a Defrag on Drive D and it told me it was in use and to
please
tun chkdsk f/
I went to the prompt and this is the message that I got.
"Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator>chkdsk /f
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)"


If I select YES! nothing changes.

Look through the newsgroup archives, it has been covered several times.
(I didn't keep copies of the posts).

 

[Guest]

did you recently install any driver from HP such as scanjet printer or
scanner ?

 

[Guest]

Try this two things:

1. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=316506

2. Also, try running chkntfs /d from a command prompt.

 

[Maurice N ~ MVP]

If the problem persists,
Run CHKDSK in XP Recovery Console:
Set pc BIOS to boot from CDROM. Place XP CD in drive. Reboot from the CD.
Select the first option R Repair/Recovery Console. Select your Windows
partition by number. Usually it is 1 . Login to XP with administrator
password. Then run CHKDSK /P from the command line. (In R console /P
replaces /F ).

Run it once (or repeat) until it shows no errors. This should clear the
"dirty" flag on the drive. Run CHKDSK for each drive on your system.
CHKDSK /P :X where X is letter for disk drive


Then, providing it all checks out, type
chkntfs /x c:

That would exclude checking of C drive on the next boot.
The /x command-line option is not accumulative. If you type it more than
once, the most recent entry overrides the previous entry. To exclude
multiple volumes, list them all in one command. For example, to exclude
both the E: and F: volumes, type:

chkntfs /x e: f:

If you have a scanner on your system, perhaps an HP scanner, I
understand some of those can cause a conflict, which then leads to
chkdsk problem.

References for Recovery Console:
Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console - Article ID 314058
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058

HTH