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chkdsk
« on: January 20, 2020, 04:39:56 PM »
Last week I had to do a hard shut down on my dual boot compter; XP and Windows 8. When I reboot to XP the computer ran a chkdsk on both hard drives and found nothing. Now, every time I boot to XP it tries to run the chkdsk. What can I do to stop this?
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Re: chkdsk
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2020, 04:49:06 PM »
Did it finish on both HDD s ? ?

On next boot run chkntfs from a command prompt.
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Re: chkdsk
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2020, 05:24:48 AM »
What you're seeing is autocheck. The system detects a dirty bit on the drive and runs checkdisk at boot. Unfortunately it runs it without any helpful switches, so it will just keep happening until you intercede.

I'm going to assume the check is being done on c: drive. Open a command prompt from within windows and type: chkdsk c: /r    (note: there is a space before and after "c:"
Then Press ENTER. You'll be told the disk is in use and asked if you want to run checkdisk at the next boot. Say yes and reboot. Checkdisk will run with the repair switch, so it will take a while depending on the size of your hdd. A couple of things Dave:

1) As is always the recommendation when running any drive level command, make sure you have a current image of your drive "just in case"
2) As I said, checkdisk will take a while because the /r switch tells it to repair both software AND hardware errors (it will move data from bad sectors and mark those sectors unusable in the future). Do not interrupt it - let it finish.

Afterward, your system should boot normally.

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Re: chkdsk
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2020, 08:40:37 AM »
Thanks Allan. As soon as I can find some time I will run the chkdsk repair to see if that helps. Presently, it's just a nuisance and I do have an image backed up on an external drive.
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Re: chkdsk
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2020, 08:44:39 AM »
You're welcome Dave. It's not an uncommon problem, but it's better to take care of it sooner rather than later. No harm in letting checkdisk run overnight if that's more convenient for you.

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Re: chkdsk
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2020, 06:32:21 AM »
Hey Dave - just checking to see if it's all sorted out.

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Re: chkdsk
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2020, 09:55:43 AM »
Yes, I had to run chkdsk on all my drives before it went back to booting normally. Thanks.
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Re: chkdsk
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2020, 11:12:39 AM »
Kewl Beans...glad yer fixed up.
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Re: chkdsk
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2020, 02:09:59 PM »
good to hear.