Madness, Dispair, and Desperation

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I recently copied four partitions from a 160G drive to four unlettered
partitions in a 250G drive using Norton Ghost 9.0. The first partition I
copied contained the OS.

After making the copy, I turned off the machine. Disconnected the source
drive and rebooted the machine with the 250G drive. WindowsXP booted the
machine after doing a Windows CHKDSK on what it automatically designated as
drive C:\|. After boot up, I noticed that the programs I have set to start
at boot up did not start. The programs are loaded into drive D: which
apparently wasn't designated during boot up. I looked Disk Management and
saw that C: was in fact designate while the other 3 weren't. I assigned
drive lettes D: E: and F: as I thought appropriate. Then rebooted Windows.

This time Windows booted after performing a CHKDSK on drives D: and E:
After Word booted I checked that all of the drives appeared properly and
everything seemed to work perfectly. I was able to open files, and
applications which were loaded on the D: and E: drives.

The problem is this. Now every time I restart Windows, it does a CHKDSK
(checking for consistency). How do I stop this. Thanks.
 
Greg said:
I recently copied four partitions from a 160G drive to four unlettered
partitions in a 250G drive using Norton Ghost 9.0. The first partition I
copied contained the OS.

After making the copy, I turned off the machine. Disconnected the source
drive and rebooted the machine with the 250G drive. WindowsXP booted the
machine after doing a Windows CHKDSK on what it automatically designated as
drive C:\|. After boot up, I noticed that the programs I have set to start
at boot up did not start. The programs are loaded into drive D: which
apparently wasn't designated during boot up. I looked Disk Management and
saw that C: was in fact designate while the other 3 weren't. I assigned
drive lettes D: E: and F: as I thought appropriate. Then rebooted Windows.

This time Windows booted after performing a CHKDSK on drives D: and E:
After Word booted I checked that all of the drives appeared properly and
everything seemed to work perfectly. I was able to open files, and
applications which were loaded on the D: and E: drives.

The problem is this. Now every time I restart Windows, it does a CHKDSK
(checking for consistency). How do I stop this. Thanks.
Click to expand...

Go to Kelly's site for some suggestions:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm
Click on "C" and scroll to:
Check Disk - Disk Checking Runs Upon Boot
 
Chkdsk normally runs in a "Read-Only" mode or does a cursory check of
the drive based on it's "Dirty" flag. To clear the flag may require Chkdsk
with a /F(ix) or /R(epair) qualifier. Queuing this up from Windows will do
the Chkdsk at the next boot, before the GUI beings.
NOTE: Chkdsk in Fix/Repair can and will resolve issue(s), but may remove
data in doing so. NEVER - do a Chkdsk with /F /R unless you've
got the data on the drive to be checked backed up & verified.
 
Chkdsk normally runs in a "Read-Only" mode or does a cursory check of the
drive based on it's "Dirty" flag. To clear the flag may require Chkdsk with
a /F(ix) or /R(epair) qualifier. Queuing this up from Windows will do
the Chkdsk at the next boot, before the GUI beings.

I am sorry if I made anyone think that I had a clue what I was doing.

How precisely do you "Queue this up from Windows?"
 
Click Start, Run (Type) Cmd [Enter]
->Command Prompt box opens in the center of the screen
Click within the box to give it "Focus" then (type) Chkdsk C: /F
and Press Enter. The system will report that the requested
operation cannot be done and would you like to do it at the
next system boot - Answer Y.
Reboot
 
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