chkdsk on Vista

Michael · External Since: Jun 28, 2006 Posts: 156

Every time I boot or re-boot Vista Ultimate, it runs chkdsk on my C-Drive.
This takes a considerable time - almost 1 hour. For some reasons my usb
keyboard is disabled in this process and I therefore cannot cancel it. After
chkdsk has run through 5 long stages Vista then re-boots and reports that
c-drive is free of errors and Vista loads up normally.

How can I prevent chkdsk from running by default on every boot?

Rick Rogers · External Since: Aug 19, 2006 Posts: 3018

Hi Michael,

Something is causing the dirty bit to be set. Open an elevated command
prompt by typing CMD into the start/search box, then right click the entry
in the start menu and use 'run as administrator'. From the prompt, run
'chkntfs /d'. Then close the prompt and restart the system. As that command
resets the drive, it should not run autochk at this point. If it does, then
something you have installed is causing the dirty bit to be set and you need
to look into what is running in the background.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Michael" <Michael.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E7E4EC5F-6A29-4A56-BB90-954E1E5BE40C@microsoft.com...
> Every time I boot or re-boot Vista Ultimate, it runs chkdsk on my C-Drive.
> This takes a considerable time - almost 1 hour. For some reasons my usb
> keyboard is disabled in this process and I therefore cannot cancel it.
> After
> chkdsk has run through 5 long stages Vista then re-boots and reports that
> c-drive is free of errors and Vista loads up normally.
>
> How can I prevent chkdsk from running by default on every boot?

Dutchscout · External Since: May 21, 2007 Posts: 3

Any idea how to make autochk run if it isn't running on startup? The dirty
bit is set, but vista won't run chkdsk on startup. I even tried running
chkntfs /D, and later edited the registry entry manually (according to
directions from a knowledge base article) but the thing still won't run
chkdsk unless I boot from the DVD into recovery console. This might be a
Dell issue. **This reply is a cross-post reply - - please see 'Scan Disk does
not run at startup' posted 5/7/2007 by 'Jeff'.

dutchscout

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> Something is causing the dirty bit to be set. Open an elevated command
> prompt by typing CMD into the start/search box, then right click the entry
> in the start menu and use 'run as administrator'. From the prompt, run
> 'chkntfs /d'. Then close the prompt and restart the system. As that command
> resets the drive, it should not run autochk at this point. If it does, then
> something you have installed is causing the dirty bit to be set and you need
> to look into what is running in the background.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Michael" <Michael.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E7E4EC5F-6A29-4A56-BB90-954E1E5BE40C@microsoft.com...
> > Every time I boot or re-boot Vista Ultimate, it runs chkdsk on my C-Drive.
> > This takes a considerable time - almost 1 hour. For some reasons my usb
> > keyboard is disabled in this process and I therefore cannot cancel it.
> > After
> > chkdsk has run through 5 long stages Vista then re-boots and reports that
> > c-drive is free of errors and Vista loads up normally.
> >
> > How can I prevent chkdsk from running by default on every boot?
>
>

bob k. · External Since: Jul 02, 2007 Posts: 1

I have the same problem. I cannot get chkdsk to run, ever, at a command
(yes, yes, yes, from an elevated, administrator level) due to the disk being
"in use by another process", even from Safe Mode! When I ask (in these same
ways, except I didn't try to edit the registry) it to run chkdsk after a
reboot/restart, it won't do that either. Please help!

bob k.

"Dutchscout" wrote:

> Any idea how to make autochk run if it isn't running on startup? The dirty
> bit is set, but vista won't run chkdsk on startup. I even tried running
> chkntfs /D, and later edited the registry entry manually (according to
> directions from a knowledge base article) but the thing still won't run
> chkdsk unless I boot from the DVD into recovery console. This might be a
> Dell issue. **This reply is a cross-post reply - - please see 'Scan Disk does
> not run at startup' posted 5/7/2007 by 'Jeff'.
>
> dutchscout
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > Something is causing the dirty bit to be set. Open an elevated command
> > prompt by typing CMD into the start/search box, then right click the entry
> > in the start menu and use 'run as administrator'. From the prompt, run
> > 'chkntfs /d'. Then close the prompt and restart the system. As that command
> > resets the drive, it should not run autochk at this point. If it does, then
> > something you have installed is causing the dirty bit to be set and you need
> > to look into what is running in the background.
> >
> > --
> > Best of Luck,
> >
> > Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> > Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> > My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
> >
> > "Michael" <Michael.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:E7E4EC5F-6A29-4A56-BB90-954E1E5BE40C@microsoft.com...
> > > Every time I boot or re-boot Vista Ultimate, it runs chkdsk on my C-Drive.
> > > This takes a considerable time - almost 1 hour. For some reasons my usb
> > > keyboard is disabled in this process and I therefore cannot cancel it.
> > > After
> > > chkdsk has run through 5 long stages Vista then re-boots and reports that
> > > c-drive is free of errors and Vista loads up normally.
> > >
> > > How can I prevent chkdsk from running by default on every boot?
> >
> >

silasmoon · Joined: Nov 08, 2007 Posts: 1

I have the exact same problem. I have tried to schedule chkdsk /x in safemode and it still does nothing. I haven't fooled with the registry at all yet though.