Check Disk runs every bootup? 1

[dhos]

Somehow, somewhen, my XP Pro installation has started complaining at every bootup that Windows didn't shut down corerctly and must check the hard drive. It rarely finds or fixes any problems (once in a while a cross linked file - usually looks like something in IE or Opera's cache) but yet on every bootup I have this happen.

Windows XP always shuts down normally with no complaints. XP runs very well and there are no other problems at all. Once a long time ago I had a corrupt hive and had to fix by running chkdsk from the recovery console since the system wouldn't start Windows at all. And another time I got that mysearch.com thing which I fixed by reverting to an earlier restore point, but this is a recent problem that does not seem related to those since for months in between everything ran fine.

Defrag and Check Disk run within XP complete normally, no problems there.

I have a ton of Windows experience but I have no idea where to even start with this one. How do you know what condition triggers the check disk on startup?

My hard drives are dual seagate 40gb ATA-100 in a Raid 0 array. The raid controller is the GIGARaid chip integrated in my gigabyte motherboard GA-8PENXP. The driver is unsigned, provided by Gigabyte.

Appreciate any ideas or suggestions.

 

[bcastner]

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=316506

Try:

Start, Run, chkntfs /x c:

Reference:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;160963

See also:

http://www.buildorbuy.org/dirtybit.html

 

[dhos]

Wow. I have that scanner but installed the original 2k driver. And I had a corrupt hive (which I do believe has been completely resolved), and since I have a raid array perhaps when I shutdown there are still uncommitted changes. I could be hitting the trifecta here!

I also did not know you could disable chkdsk.

I scoured the Microsoft Knowledgebase for minutes and couldn't find that article about the scanner.

Great stuff! Thanks a lot!

 

[bcastner]

It is onlikely all three conditions are responsible for the event. Start with the scanner drivers.

Best wishes,
Bill Castner

 

[dhos]

scanner - updated

dirty bit - not set

chkdsk - no errors

corrupt hive - doesn't see so, computer runs fine otherwise, can't tell

event viewer - daily messages that the volume on (some long number starting with \\?\ is corrupt

tried removing all peripherals - scanner, media reader, webcam, printer, game controllers, no change

aaargh!

 

[bcastner]

Update RAID controller driver?

 

[dhos]

I'll check, it was the latest when I built the system about 6 months ago. Not sure why that would suddenly cause a problem. I may have to do a backup / reinstall / restore or something.