I am running Windows XP Home Edition. I had a failure and eventually ran CHKDSK without formatting. I runs rhe CHKDSK program sucessfully and restarts but then runs CHKDSK again. This goes on in an endless loop. I tried an XP Repair and Install but it stull will not clear the CHKDSK loop.I have installed the basic XP on another disk so I can get to the main disk but I would like to keep my system as it was and not reinstall all of the programs. Is there a way to turn off the CHKDSK routine on the old disk so that I can run it without reinstalling all the programs?? 1 person needs an answerI do too

running a repair install on a dirty disk does little good to clean it. but it was a worthy try. have you tried booting with the xp cd and initiating the recovery console? you have to select r for repair instead of proceeding with the install/setup you can usually run a chkdsk /r at the disk prompt to resolve the disk errors and end the cycle you may also have to run fixboot and fixmbr, if the boot files were incidentally un-indexed by the mft. -- db`...><)))> --> sent via windows live mail."mplsreds" wrote in message news:d131301b-9967-40d8-8a6b-26934ed25614...I am running Windows XP Home Edition. I had a failure and eventually ran CHKDSK without formatting. I runs rhe CHKDSK program sucessfully and restarts but then runs CHKDSK again. This goes on in an endless loop. I tried an XP Repair and Install but it stull will not clear the CHKDSK loop.I have installed the basic XP on another disk so I can get to the main disk but I would like to keep my system as it was and not reinstall all of the programs. Is there a way to turn off the CHKDSK routine on the old disk so that I can run it without reinstalling all the programs?? db`...>-)))> `...>-)))> share the nirvana mann