problems with chkdsk on start up and PerfDisk warnings

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brumman

For the past week or so every time I start win2000 (+ SP 4) Disk check
runs - finds no problems. I have looked at all the suggestions in
various forums and cnecked the reg settings but can find nothing
wrong. However I notice that for about the same period of time I have
been getting warnings about disk performance information being
unavailable.
Could these conditions be connected? Of course it's the disk check
that really bothers me - is it best to disable it?
 
J

John John - MVP

At a command prompt issue the following command:

chkntfs /d

and then reboot and see if things change. If things don't change boot
to the Recovery Console and run chkdsk /r on the drive and then see if
things change.

To disable the disk performance counters at a command prompt issue:

diskperf -n

then reboot the machine.

John
 
B

brumman

Well I will try your suggestions John, but before that I have a new
problem.
I looked at removing the autocheck autochk* string in Boot Execute in
Reg. just to test it if needs changing, but typed the string back in
before exiting. Now on boot up it shows the disk check disabled - yet
the string is still shown there in Reg! (using regedit32). When I use
regedit there is another default string shown above the boot execute -
(REG_SZ type, with no data set). I don't recall seeing that earlier.
I suppose I could just leave it alone and let the disabled notice run
each time but at least before I had the option of running or
cancelling chkdsk at boot.
 
D

Dave Patrick

You must use regedt32.exe with windows 2000 since regedit.exe can not work
with multi-string values in registry.



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