Why Chkdsk always runs during startup?

[Michael Tan]

Pls help! One of my programs crashed forcing me to
reboot. Chkdsk then ran and found some errors on one
drive which it automatically fixed (or so I seems).
Thereafter, Chkdsk would keep running before every
startup even when I had ran it manually with no errors
found after login. This is what the Event Viewer shows
after startup:

Checking file system on D:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is HardDisk_D.
One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You
may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended
that you continue.
Windows will now check the disk.
Cleaning up 1 unused index entries from index $SII of
file 0x9.
Cleaning up 1 unused index entries from index $SDH of
file 0x9.
Cleaning up 1 unused security descriptors.

 

[Arutnev22]

Have you ran a complete virus scan?

 

[Kelly]

Hi Michael,

Go to Start/Run/CMD and type in: fsutil dirty query c:
(Modify the drive letter accordingly)

If it comes back as dirty, it hasn't cleared. For more information go to
Start/Run/CMD and type in: CHKNTFS /?

Option: From a command prompt type chkntfs /D and then reboot, a chkdsk
should run but not again on next boot.

More information here:

Check Disk - Disk Checking Runs Upon Boot
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_c.htm#cd

/xp_tweaks.htm

Top 10 Frequently Asked Questions and Answers
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm