Unnecessary Disk check during boot up

[Roy]

A friend of mine noticed that his pc had this peculiarity...
Every time he boots up the PC, it does a disk check that will result
in a prolonged boot up time.
This had been going for several months now that is why he told me
about it as its becoming unbearable for him as his other PCs are not
exhibiting this fault....
May I know what is the reason for this peculiarity, is there a known
cause for this ,and what are the means to sort out this problem....?
Roy

 

[Craig Coope]

A friend of mine noticed that his pc had this peculiarity...
Every time he boots up the PC, it does a disk check that will result
in a prolonged boot up time.
This had been going for several months now that is why he told me
about it as its becoming unbearable for him as his other PCs are not
exhibiting this fault....
May I know what is the reason for this peculiarity, is there a known
cause for this ,and what are the means to sort out this problem....?
Roy

Do you mean a scan for errors?

If this is the case them make sure th PC is shut down properly each
time it is used. You can prevent the check from happening but it's not
a good idea. Does the check find any errors? Could be a sign of a
failing hard drive.

 

[Roy]

Do you mean a scan for errors?

If this is the case them make sure th PC is shut down properly each
time it is used. You can prevent the check from happening but it's not
a good idea. Does the check find any errors? Could be a sign of a
failing hard drive.

Hmm...yes..The PC is shut down properly everytime but the disk
checking still persist..
So does it imply that the hard drive is faulty and needs to be
replaced..?

 

[Craig Coope]

Hmm...yes..The PC is shut down properly everytime but the disk
checking still persist..
So does it imply that the hard drive is faulty and needs to be
replaced..?

Does it find errors or state that certain parts of the drive are
unreadable....or does it find no errors at all?

 

[Roy]

Does it find errors or state that certain parts of the drive are
unreadable....or does it find no errors at all?

From what I know, it does not....but that PC habitually check disk
during every boot up

 

[Tim Meddick]

It could, either that or some software is causing data corruption. A pen
drive attached at boot can cause the system to start a disk check (know this
from experience and not why this is).
For your added information. The way windows decides if a disk check is
needed is by the autorun command:

autocheck autochk *

...located in the registry within the key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager]

and the value 'BootExecute'. This command is run at every boot and if error
flags are detected then it performs a scan on that drive.

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

Do you mean a scan for errors?

If this is the case them make sure th PC is shut down properly each
time it is used. You can prevent the check from happening but it's not
a good idea. Does the check find any errors? Could be a sign of a
failing hard drive.

Hmm...yes..The PC is shut down properly everytime but the disk
checking still persist..
So does it imply that the hard drive is faulty and needs to be
replaced..?

 

[Craig Coope]

From what I know, it does not....but that PC habitually check disk
during every boot up

Have a read of this:

http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_keep_chkdsk_from_running_on_every_start_up.html

Be careful of editing the registry as it's important not to delete an
entry you're not supposed to.

Just make sure that the check isn't coming up with errors. If it is
it's probably time to back up all the data that he/she wants to keep
and buy a new hard drive. (You'll have to install Windows again
though.)

 

[Gerry]

http://forums.techguy.org/hardware/794318-solved-chkdsk-volume-dirty.html

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[Roy]

Have a read of this:

http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_keep_chkdsk_from_running_on_every_start_u...

Be careful of editing the registry as it's important not to delete an
entry you're not supposed to.

Just make sure that the check isn't coming up with errors. If it is
it's probably time to back up all the data that he/she wants to keep
and buy a new hard drive. (You'll have to install Windows again
though.)

Thats an interesting piece of information...I will relay that to my
friend...
Thanks for it!

 

[Roy]

http://forums.techguy.org/hardware/794318-solved-chkdsk-volume-dirty....

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Hope  this helps.

Gerry
 ~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Thanks for that ,, have relayed that link to my friend......

 

[Jim]

A friend of mine noticed that his pc had this peculiarity...
Every time he boots up the PC, it does a disk check that will result
in a prolonged boot up time.
This had been going for several months now that is why he told me
about it as its becoming unbearable for him as his other PCs are not
exhibiting this fault....
May I know what is the reason for this peculiarity, is there a known
cause for this ,and what are the means to sort out this problem....?
Roy

Is it doing a disk check or boot scan ?

 

[Roy]

Is it doing a disk check or boot scan ?

IIRC from what he told me it was a disk check....
Why?
BTW, have not heard from him yet since I sent the links posted in this
thread....