Win2k ChkDsk [Resolved...ish]

One of my users has a Laptop running Windows 2000, every time he boots up in the morning or whenever he decides to roll in, the laptop decides to run chkdsk. Now i have checked that the shutdown is being done properly, and it is, and yet it still runs the chkdsk every morning, and it is taking about 2 hours to run. has any one seen this before, and know a way to fix it..? or know of any flags or whatever that need to be cleared before i have to give in and spend the day blatting the HDD...?

R:confused: :confused:

Did you schedual checkdisk to run at specific times ?

No, There is nothing Scheduled on his PC at all, it just seems to consider itself in need of a Chkdsk every day...

Happened here once. Can't remember what it was that caused it but I reformatted and it went away.

Possibly file system degradation.

Great, thanks for your help, looks like i will be blatting the HDD then...

R

Tried searching regedit? HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU) or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM) \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run or \RunOnce or \RunOnceEx

This happens because the "dirty" bit is set. Paradoxically, the way to clear it is to force a chkdsk :D Go to the Command Prompt and type "chkdsk /f" without the quotes, and with a bit of luck, the problem will go away. It's worth a try before reinstalling Windows anyway.

thanks for the ideas guys, i will give them a shot..

R