Need to disable DSKCHK in XP -- Assistance much appreciated

[jep]

Good Samaritans, please read:

I just bought a new machine. My old machine had a monster IDE drive
that is close to death. So here's the deal -- I just want to transfer
the files and reformat the thing. However, every time I start up the
new machine with the disk, it wants to do CHKDSK.

I don't care about the integrity of the disk; I know it's near death
-- i just want to grab some files and then reformat it.

It's a big (1450 GB) disk, so DSKCHK takes bare minimum (i turned it
off) 24 hours. We use the machine daily, so I want to handle it
quickly.

So:

How can I bypass DSKCHK? It is not giving me the "press any key"
screen, just going right at it. I don't want to wait to check a disk
I'll be reformatting anyway.

It's Windows XP SP1 on a dell P4.

It won't start in safe mode either. is there some alternate solution,
such as a quick toggle of a registry key or something along those
lines?

Help!

 

[Guest]

hook it up as slave drive( set jumpers , slave(old drive) and master with
slave-new drive master) same channel as boot disk, then use Data Life Guard
from western digital( small download) and copy the old drive to the new
drive,make a folder on the new drive like Old Data, then do file transfer, it
will copy everything from the old drive to the old data folder on the new
drive.

 

[peter]

have you tried taking the disk out of the old system and installing it as a
slave in the new system??
peter

 

[Guest]

boot into safe mode, this may shut off chkdisk, then transfer files.

 

[Guest]

Goto CMos & Desable the Smart Capability

thats all, hope is ryt

boyguapo

 

[Guest]

1st,the data lifeguard from wdc , 99% of the time it simply wont work
with xp,XCOPY probably would/will,but with a poor hd,why transfer those
settings to a new drive.2nd,with a poor drive to copy files you can use the
file-transfer-wizard in xp,set as old computer,then use advanced,to target
specific files to a new folder,when its thru,transfer to cd.

 

[Guest]

I have used Data life guard to copy file to my raid drives, no problem, just
defrag before copying, what isnt copied is pagefile( dont need) and other
items the system makes on its own anyway.

 

[Guest]

here another maybe closer to what you need Fastlynx 3.3 , free trail version;
can copy from drive that wont boot,, they claim.

http://sewelldirect.com/FastLynxHom...tware&OVKEY=file copy software&OVMTC=standard

 

[Malke]

Goto CMos & Desable the Smart Capability

thats all, hope is ryt

boyguapo

If it is in a computer that has two cd drives, one of which is a burner,
boot with Knoppix. Knoppix is a Linux distribution that runs from cd.
Then you can burn the data to cd-r with k3b.

Malke

 

[Lester Stiefel]

have you tried taking the disk out of the old system and installing it as a
slave in the new system??
peter

Earlier versions had an escape switch in system control
panel. You might try on there for a "don't run chkdsk on
startup" other than this I can't help much on this.
--
Lester Stiefel
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