Re: how do i stop scandisk running on boot up? Win XP Home

From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang[threeX12)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 08:07:22 -0500

What hard drive and how is the BIOS set?

How are you shutting down? And, is the hard drive FAT32 or
NTFS? 

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"Simon" <si.chilcott@NOSPAMMbtinternet.com> wrote in message 
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| Thanks for the help guy's i appreciate it.
| I have nothing running or set to run in the scheduler.
|
| This is what happens when i boot:
| 1) power on
| 2)chkdsk , scandisk starts i press delete to skip.
| 3)sometimes it boots ok from here and other times it will 
completely restart
| the boot sequence like it's lost power then finds it 
again.
|
| I've let chkdsk , scandisk run its course but it makes no 
deferent's because
| when the computer trips back to boot sequence it tries to 
do it all over
| again.
|
| My system is:
| AMD 2.16Ghz
| Windows XP Home, SP2
| 1GB ram
| BT Broadband internet connection
| Graphics: ATI Radeon 9200 series
|
|
|
|
| I have Norton firewall and AVG Anti Virus Enabled.
| "GTS" <x> wrote in message 
news:uQmFj$4sEHA.3912@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
| > There are two typical reasons for this.  One is that a 
command to run
| > chkdsk on startup is set in the scheduler or elsewhere. 
The other is that
| > there is a hard disk problem that scandisk is not able 
to fix.  See
| > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=831426
| >
| > Note - If you do not find a task set to run chkdsk and 
it does appear to
| > be a disk problem, look in event viewer for an 
Application Winlogon event
| > where you may find info about the specific errors.  Run 
chkdsk /f /r in a
| > command prompt which will run a scan for bad sectors. 
On rare occasions,
| > disk errors may occur (especially on NTFS drives) that 
chkdsk cannot fix.
| > If you find that to be the case, post back with details.
| > -- 
| >
| > "Simon" <si.chilcott@NOSPAMMbtinternet.com> wrote in 
message
| > news:ckp5ji$lgl$1@titan.btinternet.com...
| >> Hi'
| >> Can someone tell me how to stop scandisk running on 
boot up.
| >>
| >> I'm using windows XP Home ed
| >>
| >> TIA
| >>
| >
| >
|
|

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