every time I boot or reboot vista schedules a disk check on c: then reboots again.

[silver]

Vista ultimate insists on a disk check and runs through the whole procedure every time I start or reboot the machine. Disk is always clean but vista reboots and it starts over again. It does start eventually but is useless as an o/s because the check takes about 20 mins every time.
Getting to the stage where I think about going back to XP.
Anyone have any ideas about how to resolve the problem?

[CrowdAds]

[Snuffy]

How many HDD's do you have in your system?
or different volume's? converted to Drives.

Recommend you go to: start --> Admin Tools --> open TASK SCHEDULER and make sure you do not have CHECK HDD'S on boot. really easy is to DISABLE any tasks set , refresh, review or simply check to see what is on schedule.

[silver]

Originally Posted by Snuffy

How many HDD's do you have in your system?
or different volume's? converted to Drives.

Recommend you go to: start --> Admin Tools --> open TASK SCHEDULER and make sure you do not have CHECK HDD'S on boot. really easy is to DISABLE any tasks set , refresh, review or simply check to see what is on schedule.

I have 2 x ide and one sata drive. Celeron 3.6ghz, 2 gb ram, vista ultimate.
I checked task scheduler but no mention of hdd check.

I have now used the old fashioned run command and entered CHKNTFS c/x and this seems to give me 10 seconds to cancel the disk check. So I am able to use the program.
It would be nice to get it sorted though.
Thanks very much for your help, I really appreciate it.

[silver]

Originally Posted by silver

I have 2 x ide and one sata drive. Celeron 3.6ghz, 2 gb ram, vista ultimate.
I checked task scheduler but no mention of hdd check.

I have now used the old fashioned run command and entered CHKNTFS c/x and this seems to give me 10 seconds to cancel the disk check. So I am able to use the program.
It would be nice to get it sorted though.
Thanks very much for your help, I really appreciate it.

Correction to my last post the chkntfs c/x worked only once. Back to square one.

[Snuffy]

Do you mean that you used /c/x or did you mean chkdsk c:/f or C: /c/x

Correction to my last post the chkntfs c/x worked only once. Back to square one.

unless you use /c /x then the c [part does not work] the /x means you have a mounted drive which is compressed,

It is not recommended to compress NTFS drives...totally a waste of time.
When CHKDSK is set to run at boot-up there is a delay to allow the check to be cancelled - this can be configured in the registry:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager
REG_DWORD:AutoChkTimeOutData
The value is the time in seconds that you want CHKDSK to wait (0 = no delay) default is 10 seconds.

Normally CHKDSK is auto ran when your HD is DIRTY... meaning it has some BAD SPOTS... it is then recommended to Boot to DOS.. and run chkdsk /f to allow fixing the BAD SPOTS.. then recommend you get a DIFFERENT HDD to boot from.... when it starts to become corrupt,, it is 75% failure in short order... next you will find that your boot time gets longer, then your mouse will start to act up, and you will have lengths of FREEZE .

The recommended command is CHKDSK c: /f /r /b

(fix repair=implies /f retest=implies /r) seems redunt but it is necessary and will/can take some time...
YOUR HDD IS FAILING... has many corrupt spots.

PS: there are program out that will test and read the total time in hours that a HDD has been used...many so call NEW are actually refurbished, or scrubbed and cleaned... very bad practice, but every major HDD manufacturer I have came across since 1983 has used this unethical practice.

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or recommend CHKNTFS c: /D /C
if your system boots and you find it goes into chkntfs YOUR HDD IS DIRTY= Failure is imminent=Get a new HDD to boot to.
CHKNTFS volume [...]
CHKNTFS /D
CHKNTFS /T[:time]
CHKNTFS /X volume [...]
CHKNTFS /C volume [...]

volume Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon),
mount point, or volume name.
/D Restores the machine to the default behavior; all drives are
checked at boot time and chkdsk is run on those that are
dirty.
/T:time Changes the AUTOCHK initiation countdown time to the
specified amount of time in seconds. If time is not
specified, displays the current setting.
/X Excludes a drive from the default boot-time check. Excluded
drives are not accumulated between command invocations.
/C Schedules a drive to be checked at boot time; chkdsk will run
if the drive is dirty.If no switches are specified, CHKNTFS will display if the specified drive is
dirty or scheduled to be checked on next reboot.

C:\Windows\system32>

[silver]

Hi Snuffy.
Well I have already used the registry to cure the problem.
Somehow I had several strings to the root execute value which I have now
edited to autocheck autochk/k:c* and this seems to have resolved the problem.
Have rebooted several times and the machine starts and runs ok.
Every time the chkdsk ran before, the disk was always "clean"
I keep the hard drives free of junk using Winspeedup program which seems quite good.
Thanks again for the help

[silver]

By the way the machine now boots much faster.
The last chkdsk showed no bad sectors or problems with the drive.
When I can find it I will run the Samsung drive checker I know I have it somewhere.

[Snuffy]

Glad you got it fixed... should like a very annoying to me.