Disk Checking during boot up

[Roy]

Hello group
Occasionally in the past I experienced my PC doing some sort of disk
checking which can dramatically slow down the boot up processs
It looks like this:

One of your disk needs to be checked for the consistency
The file system is NTFS...etc
I would like to know why is this happening and is there a tweak to
prevent this from happening?
TIA
Roy

 

[Pegasus [MVP]]

Hello group
Occasionally in the past I experienced my PC doing some sort of disk
checking which can dramatically slow down the boot up processs
It looks like this:

One of your disk needs to be checked for the consistency
The file system is NTFS...etc
I would like to know why is this happening and is there a tweak to
prevent this from happening?
TIA
Roy

This happens almost always when you switch off your PC by pulling the plug
instead of shutting it down in an orderly fashion.

 

[BillW50]

In Pegasus [MVP] typed on Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:34:24 +0200:

This happens almost always when you switch off your PC by pulling the
plug instead of shutting it down in an orderly fashion.

Yeah but sometimes it happens and there is nothing wrong. I have one
Windows 2000 machine that wants to check any flash drive in the USB port
at boot and there is nothing ever wrong with it. There is a registry
hack which to turn it off which I don't remember. But I also use HD
Sentinel that has one feature is that you can disable disk check at
boot. It does lots of other things too. And no you don't have to
register it. Only if you want to buy the extra features.

http://www.hdsentinel.com

 

[Kelly]

Ditto on the USB (Fat32) - but on XP.

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[Jose]

Hello group
Occasionally  in the past I experienced my PC doing some sort of disk
checking which can dramatically slow down the boot up processs
It looks like this:

One of your disk needs to be checked for the consistency
The file system is NTFS...etc
I would like to know why is this happening and is there a tweak to
prevent this from happening?
TIA
Roy

XP will want to run chkdsk on any drive that the autocheck program
finds dirty (as far as it is concerned) when the system boots.
Normally it checks all your drives (*). Assuming NTFS...

To find out the status of the dirty bit from a command prompt, query
the dirty bit for the appropriate drive:

fsutil dirty query c:

The drive is DIRTY or it is not DIRTY.

You cannot clear the dirty bit from a command prompt, but you can tell
autocheck to exclude it from being checked if you are really, really
sure you want the dirty bit of the drive not to be checked.

Let's say you don't ever want to check your D drive.

Navigate to here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager

Change the BootExecute value from:

autocheck autochk *

to:

autocheck autochk /k:d *

Autocheck will never check the D drive again, so chkdsk will never run
on it.

 

[Roy]

This happens almost always when you switch off your PC by pulling the plug
instead of shutting it down in an orderly fashion.

Well I seldom do that and there are times that the pc hangs up that I
have to press button, but when it rebooted it starts normally....

 

[Roy]

InPegasus [MVP] typed on Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:34:24 +0200:






Yeah but sometimes it happens and there is nothing wrong. I have one
Windows 2000 machine that wants to check any flash drive in the USB port
at boot and there is nothing ever wrong with it. There is a registry
hack which to turn it off which I don't remember. But I also use HD
Sentinel that has one feature is that you can disable disk check at
boot. It does lots of other things too. And no you don't have to
register it. Only if you want to buy the extra features.

http://www.hdsentinel.com

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Windows XP SP2 (5.1.2600)
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Thanks for that information Bill!
Roy

 

[BillW50]

In
Roy typed on Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:28:00 -0700 (PDT):

Thanks for that information Bill!
Roy

You are welcome Roy. Glad to help.