Volume Dirty won't reset

[Jim K]

Chkdsk runs every time I boot on a volume, never finds anything, but the
"dirty volume bit" never gets reset. I've run the utility to inspect the
bit, but it won't reset it. Is there a way to do this manually, or find out
what is causing it to get set?

Thanks,
Jim

 

[Thorsten Matzner]

Chkdsk runs every time I boot on a volume, never finds anything, but the
"dirty volume bit" never gets reset.

See if this helps: "Chkdsk Runs Each Time That You Start Your
Computer" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=316506).

 

[Jim K]

Thanks for the suggestion. Though I was hoping for something a little less
drastic the article basically says "try repairing the registry" and the link
for doing that basically says "blow out you old registry and replace it",
which sounds like a complete re-install of all the software.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the suggestion. Though I was hoping for something a little less
drastic the article basically says "try repairing the registry" and the link
for doing that basically says "blow out you old registry and replace it",
which sounds like a complete re-install of all the software.

Scroll down to "checkdisk"
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_c.htm

 

[Thorsten Matzner]

Thanks for the suggestion. Though I was hoping for something a little less
drastic the article basically says "try repairing the registry" and the link
for doing that basically says "blow out you old registry and replace it",
which sounds like a complete re-install of all the software.

No. You simply restore a backup of the Registry which should also
contain all the data except for very recent changes.