Windows XP PRO running CHKDSK on restart

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On fresh install for a new 200GB hard disk setup into 2 partitions. Windows
XP is installed in Primary partition (Bootable). XP PRO wants to run CHKDSK
on every startup. Why is this? It seems it is finding errors in the process
as well, and complains about not having enough disk space to fix the problem.

Anyone run into this problem before?

Frustrated.
 
Are you running at least XP SP1? XP without a Service Pack on it can not read
a hard disk above 137 Gigabytes. Trust me, I know. I lost years worth of data
when I went to rebuild a computer that didn't have a slipstreamed SP1 on it
and chkdsk found all of the missing space to be full of orphaned files. I
suggest you upgrade now if you haven't and you make a slipstream version of
SP1 until SP2 is fixed enough that it's actually worth installing.
 
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