scandisk after restart

[aurgathor]

Whenever I do a Restart, scandisk will always
come up before W2K checking my boot drive.

What can be causing this, and how can I prevent it?
(other than never use a restart)

TIA,
J.

 

[Dan Seur]

J: For starters the process is "chkdsk" not "scandisk" and of course
that shouldn't be happening. Somehow at these restarts the "dirty bit"
indicating improper closing of that drive is being left on, and that's
usually what causes the boot "autocheck." Doesn't the same thing happen
at a normal shutdown/reboot? If not, then some process is being killed
at those restarts before it can clean up its act & shut down gracefully.
If that's the case, you have only to do some trial-and-error work to see
which application is not shutting down properly when you do a restart.

At a command prompt, type chkdsk.exe /? to see what chkdsk can do with
its different parameters.

Suggestion:
- during a normal session run chkdsk with no parameters against your
boot drive. It's pretty fast. Look carefully at what it reports. If it
finds anomalies, then
- run chkdsk /f /r against that drive. That will correct the anomalies,
if possible.
- when the repair is completed, shut down. Reboot. Then try a restart,
and let us know what happens.

Caution: when anomalies are irreparable, chkdsk will move affected files
into new files with automatically generated names unrelated to the
original useful names. Most data in those files may be preserved, but
using it to reconstruct the original files is very difficult. It's a
good idea if significant anomalies exist to copy as much as you can of
anything important to a different drive...

 

[aurgathor]

Thanks for your reply. I just run "chkdsk" and there
were nothing out of ordinary, though 501 hidden
files sounds a bit high to me, but that's not a disk
error per say.

There's no chkdsk after shutdown, so I guess you're
right and some process is being killed prematurely.
Next time I reboot (might be a few days, though) I'll
try to shutdown as many processesas possible manually
before restart to see if that makes any difference.

File and folder verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problem.
8,329,432 KB total disk space.
207,480 KB in 501 hidden files.
23,512 KB in 5,237 folders.
6,907,780 KB in 63,101 files.
1,190,656 KB are available.

4,096 bytes in each allocation unit.
2,082,358 total allocation units on disk.
297,664 allocation units available on disk.