Disabling the Automatic Running of Chkdsk on startup for all drives
Now i know that normally disabling chkdsk would not be recommended for most systems. However in my case I have a test machine that I'm regularly removing and adding customers HDD's and it's not always helpful to have chkdsk run and in some cases can be detrimental to file recovery. Now i know i can disable scanning for individual drives in the registry by adding the /k:<drive letter> option to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROLSET\CONTROL\Session Manager\BootExecute ... however this option will not work with new drives installed. I was wondering if there was a way I could disable the auto chkdsk on startup everytime. I don't mind it asking me if I want to check or not but I just don't want its default option to be yes. I would like the default option to be no so that if i'm not at the screen at the time of booting i can still choose to not to run chkdsk.
July 15th, 2010 8:15am

Hi There are some people suggested to edit the registry but the proper way to disable CHKDSK from starting up is using the /x switch on chkntfs command in command prompt. The /x switch will exclude a drive from the default boot-time check. If you have drive C: as your hard drive, then the command to disable chkdsk from scanning C: drive would be: chkntfs /x c: If you have 2 drive, C and D, you can disable chkdsk with the command below chkntfs /x c: d: then go ahead and reboot. Hope this will solve your problem Thanx Regards Syed Asad Bukhari
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July 15th, 2010 8:32am

Hi, Any updates??
July 16th, 2010 1:36pm

You can also check the following article for information: Fsutil: dirty http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/fsutil_dirty.mspx?mfr=truePlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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July 19th, 2010 4:53am

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