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  1. Jun 5th, 2003, 02:14 AM #1
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    Exclamation 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...?

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  2. Jun 5th, 2003, 04:49 AM #2
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    Did you schedual checkdisk to run at specific times ?
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  3. Jun 5th, 2003, 05:16 AM #3
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    No, There is nothing Scheduled on his PC at all, it just seems to consider itself in need of a Chkdsk every day...
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  4. Jun 5th, 2003, 03:47 PM #4
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    Happened here once. Can't remember what it was that caused it but I reformatted and it went away.

    Possibly file system degradation.
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  6. Jun 6th, 2003, 01:36 AM #5
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    Great, thanks for your help, looks like i will be blatting the HDD then...

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  7. Jun 7th, 2003, 12:57 AM #6
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    Tried searching regedit? HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU) or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM) \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run or \RunOnce or \RunOnceEx
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  8. Jun 9th, 2003, 03:56 PM #7
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    This happens because the "dirty" bit is set. Paradoxically, the way to clear it is to force a chkdsk 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.
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  9. Jun 10th, 2003, 01:39 AM #8
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    thanks for the ideas guys, i will give them a shot..

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