Disable XP File Checking on Boot

[betabilly]

I have had a real nasty time with Hitachi 2.5" drives on my ThinkPad, had 3 new ones fail within a year. The 20 gig Travel Star that came with the laptop is installed now but XP prompts to check drive C on boot. File and folder checking goes off without issue however verifying free space takes 90 minutes and reports all is ok but on the next boot XP still requests I check the disk. There are bad sectors in a NTFS partition thats been formatted and not used. Aside from the check disk prompt, the system runs fine.
Is there any way to prevent the drive needs checked prompt?

-Al

 

[wahnula]

One way would be to hover over the PC while booting and press the "any" key to stop the auto-check. I'm sure that can be disabled in the registry, let me check my resources...

BTW I do not think it would hurt the PC to hold the power switch in for a few seconds to shut down if you miss the prompt and it enters chkdsk...someone correct me if I am wrong.

That process is scheduled by your system because it found something it did not like and wanted to run the check to see if there was a problem with the disk, so it is an indicator that something is wrong somewhere. Any clues in the Eventlog?

Tony

 

[betabilly]

I was hoping there was some kind of log I could hack that lists errors. I'll do a search on eventlog. Thanks.

 

[wahnula]

betabilly,

I was not able to find a registry setting to fix your problem, but I am not a seasoned hacker like some here. To DE-schedule the task, go to Start->Programs->Accessories->System Tools-> Scheduled Tasks and cancel chkdsk if it is there.

One caveat would be that if it is there, your system put it there for a reason, but if the check passes every time just cancel the Scheduled Task before reboot.

Tony