Disable Automatic chkdsk 1

[GeckoAPA]

I am having problems with disabling the winXP scandisk feature on restart. i usually skip it (i know that i probably shouldn't!) and next time i reeboot.... it pops up again.. and again. So I am looking for the option to disable chkdsk on reeboot, is there a way to disable it

 

[Rahosi]

There's no smoke without fire. Are you sure your hard disk is healthy?

 

[GeckoAPA]

Yah, the hdd is fine, it just pops up when the pc crashes (i play a lot of games) and it runs on reeboot as it did in win98, but then it says "press any key to skip....." and i do, and it skips. When i next boot the pc, it displays it again and repeats this until i let it have it's way, then it boots fine.

 

[TekkieDave]

Of course its gonna keep popping up if you skip it. Just let it run man.

 

[Mosh99]

Rather than trying to disable scandisk, why not fix the games so that they do not crash your computer ie install and configure them properly and if that doesn’t work get games that are xp compatible

 

[GeckoAPA]

but that is just not gonna happen, so back to my original question... is there a way to disable it?

 

[tomgg]

I picked up this tip but have not used it yet, although others have successfully:
For your reference, it is CONTROLLED HERE in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro
l\Session Manager

Follow that path down the left-hand side of the registry tree, & in the right-hand side, look at the "BootExecute" value... you will see chkdsk.exe control being signalled for next boot there!

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Normally it is this:

autocheck autochk *

When you set it to do a chkdsk, via chkdsk /f c:, for instance (since bootdrives or Operating System housing ones cannot be dismounted & locked for exclusive access to single check disk task) you will see this:

autocheck autochk /p \??\C: APK

P.S.=> Folks are right though, if the system is not shutdown properly via start button logoff/shutdown, the dirty flag the system sets at logon is not marked as clean thru proper shutdown & that value is not reset to a clean one! apk Let me know what you think, OK.

 

[GeckoAPA]

OK, so i deleted the key, and pressed the reset button, and it tried to run chkdisk, but it said "file not found....." and continiued to load windows, so thank you for the help!