How to disable chkdsk form checking C: each time you boot XP

Yesterday during the good Friday holiday I was at home all day since it was a public holiday and the computer repair shop had to be closed so I had nothing to do that much at home. I received a phone call where on of my clients complained that each time he boot up his computer it always start to do a check disk on drive C: . So he was asking me how to fix the problem because its so annoying to him so this is why I am posting this technique on how to disable check disk from checking the hard drive (chkdsk).

Chkdsk is a utility built into windows to perform various check to your hard drive for any possible bad sectors(the nightmare of hard drives). or file corruption on the disk so it tries to put the files in correct order or in a sequential manner something similar to disk defragment. This problem is caused by improper shutdown of the computer, so for example you are using a word processing application or doing a graphic art in Photoshop or Illustrator and the you had a power outage or something in common the computer did not get the chance to shutdown properly so that causes the files on the hard drive like the .sys files to be in a bad state and other non-contiguous files on the disk, so Chkdsk will start to examine the hard disk for those problem and start to fix it. But the disadvantage about the chkdsk utility is that you may see it happen each time again and you start up the computer and you start to panic, well don't worry here is how you fix the problem.

First go to start then click run then type CMD you can type in lower case doesn't matter.



This will launch the command prompt which DOS interface a black screen window with white text. Next all you have to do is type chkntfs /x c: hit the enter key on the keyboard. The "/x" is a switch command that tells the chkdsk utility to remove the function each time windows starts up and its also saved in the BootExecute entry in the registry.




When you hit hit the enter key you should get a message saying "The type of file system is NTFS". So it removes the entry in the registry, so the next time you restart the computer you will not see the chkdsk utility again.



Next restart the computer and you should be good to go again so that is it my friends I hope you found it useful and if you have any problems you can comment to send me an email so that I can help you troubleshoot the problem. See you again for more advance computer tips and trick from techsteveblog.