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Help: Windows XP Does Consistency Check On Every Startup

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Mr Milquetoast

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Every time I start Windows XP it insists that “one of your drives has to be checked for consistency.” If I let it doe the check it finds nothing wrong, but it wants to do it every single time I start Windows.

I had this problem once before and in the end I had to copy everything off the hard disk, format it and copy it back which solved the problem but now it’s back.

The drive is a 200GB SATA Maxtor with a single partition formatted with NTFS and it’s about half full of music and pictures. It’s a fairly new drive (only about six months old). Looks like someone else had a similar problem but nobody had a solution.

Any suggestions what I might be able to do to stop this?

Thanks for the advice.
 
Try running chkdsk while in windows. I think the boottime checker just looks for errors, and doesn't fix certain kinds.

 
Thanks for the reply.

I had tried that but it just seems to do the same three part check Windows does on startup and comes to the same conclusion that "Windows has checked the file system and found no problems." Unfortunately it still does it every time I start Windows.

When I think about it the first time it did the test on startup it did find a bad file, so it's like it needed to be done once but something has remained set when it shouldn't have, causing the check to be done every time.
 
Thanks that's great. I'll have a read through all of that later on and hopefully ther'll be something there that'll solve the problem.
 
I've had occasions when even on a good disk, especially flash drives, windows wants to keep checking and checking. A quick "AT /delete" at the command prompt fixed all :)
 
AT /delete seems to have worked. I tried it and restarted immediately after and it did the check but since then it hasn't done it once.

Thanks a lot for the help. Having to skip that every time I started up was a real pain and it was even more of a pain if I missed my chance to skip it and had to sit through it.
 
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