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Comment from Harry on 2009-11-12

2009-11-12T09:09:56Z

Leo, you are a 'God Send'......I have been struggling for weeks with this issue and have googled many a site to find the solution and then I found this answer and it worked. It simply worked. Thanks for your clear and consise answer, I was able to have my computer (once again) start without going through the CHKDSK check every time I started it up.....thanks. For a (relative)newbie it was so simple and easy to follow.....thanks a million.
Thanks again for all your help

Harry (Northern Ireland)

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Comment from Lee Nelson Guptill on 2009-11-03

2009-11-03T16:59:58Z

Hi Leo, I carefully read your answer to the question, "How do I keep CHKDSK from running on every start-up?" but none of the answers exactly applied to me. This is what my error says: "Checking file system on C: the type of file system is NTFS - the volume is dirty. Chdsk is verifying" and then it goes through stage 1 of 3, stage 2 of 3, and then stage 3 of three checks." Naturally, it takes longer than average to boot up.

Just wanted you to know that I seriously tried and am not being lazy 'cuz I know you are a busy man.

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Comment from Lee Nelson Guptill on 2009-11-02

2009-11-02T15:51:38Z

Anybody know why when I boot up everytime I get the message, "Checking file system on C: the type of file system is NTFS - the volume is dirty. Chdsk is verifying" and then it goes through stage 1 of 3, stage 2 of 3, and then stage 3 of three checks. It takes several minutes of booting up because of this.

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Comment from Keith Ward on 2009-07-18

2009-07-18T08:26:34Z

autocheck autochk /r \??\C:
autocheck autochk /r \??\E:
autocheck autochk *

autocheck autochk /k:D *
THE ABOVE IS MY BOOTEXEC. ANY SUGGESTIONS AS TO WHAT TO CHANGE SINCE I HAVE NO COMMAND STRINGS WITH THE /P OPTION? THANK YOU IN ADVANCE

IN METTA

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Comment from louise on 2009-04-27

2009-04-28T03:07:16Z

i had chkdsk checking every time on boot i came here and did all the steps and got to the edit reg and the bootexecute autocheck already had an * so what do i do not to get it to stop????

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Comment from Beata on 2009-03-08

2009-03-08T14:16:34Z

I had this autocheck autochk * when I opened register and one of diskkept checking every time

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Comment from Brian on 2009-01-22

2009-01-22T20:32:54Z

I need a fix for my c drive. I get a message that comes from the toolbar at the bottom. It says msn.exe-corrupt file. The file directory c: is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the chkdsk utility. I did that and finally found your solution to shut the chkdsk off, I hope it works. My question is how do I now fix that error message. My computer will no longer play video when I am online and I need that for school.

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Comment from robert nagler on 2008-12-03

2008-12-03T14:00:01Z

Ran CHKSDK with the (disk):/f option on e partition affected, that cleared the command to run it at startup. It worked I don't know why.

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Comment from David Bieda on 2008-09-26

2008-09-27T02:29:32Z

The exact wording which now apeears on my screen on re=start is:
'Autocheck programme not found - skipping AUTOCHECK'
Which means my machine is still trying to start autocheck each time it starts.

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Comment from David Bieda on 2008-09-26

2008-09-26T18:53:56Z

I carried out the above as disc check started running every time I re-booted. As far as I can see this is a space between '.... autochk *' and the asterisk. However if I leave a space the other wording pops up again when I re-check the registry so I deleted the space.

This has stopped autocheck from running (thank you!) but when I reboot a blue screen appears saying skipping disk check as disabled. Should that happen?

I assume I can still run it manually?

By the way I'm not very technically minded.

David Bieda

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Comment from Watthon on 2008-06-17

2008-06-18T02:36:54Z

It works fine with Windows XP PCs.

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Comment from Watthon on 2008-06-17

2008-06-18T02:30:34Z

I use Windows 2000 and need CHKDSK run every time the system boots up. Referring your instruction, I type the following lines in BootExecute

0000 61 00 75 00 74 00 6F 00 a.u.t.o.
0008 63 00 68 00 65 00 63 00 c.h.e.c.
0010 6B 00 20 00 61 00 75 00 k. .a.u.
0018 74 00 6F 00 63 00 68 00 t.o.c.h.
0020 6B 00 20 00 2F 00 70 00 k. ./.p.
0028 20 00 5C 00 3F 00 3F 00 .\.?.?.
0030 5C 00 43 00 3A 00 00 00 \.C.:...

It works one time but after it the value in BootExexute automatically goes back to

0000 00 00 ..

Any idea to keep CHKDSK running at every boot up as it is necessary for my application.

Thanks.

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Comment from Jim on 2008-04-06

2008-04-06T16:24:44Z

Leo! You da MAN! The registry edit fixed this, after I tried all the other suggestions. I've bookmarked your site for the future. Thanks.

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Comment from Tim on 2007-12-27

2007-12-28T06:03:47Z

Thanks Leo. It worked great. I was getting a BSOD with the missing autocheck system message. I had copied the autocheck.exe from my XP Pro CD to my System32 directory which didn't do anything, I thought it might have gotten corrupted, but booting OK to XP desktop. Added the BootExecute which for some reason was missing from session manager. Possible either CCleaner or RegSupeme cleaned up a little to much of a leftover software program that I in/uninstalled recently. Hard to keep track since I'm dual booting with Vista. Never fret as I backup every couple weeks with Acronis True Image. Got to love Acronis. I love messing around in the registry. Thanks again Leo. Great job on your site. Keep it up and you'll be eating lunch with Thurrott at the next MS convention.

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Comment from RR on 2007-06-27

2007-06-27T23:14:28Z

This link might help out:

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/index.cfm?action=showthread&threadid=231103&forumid=1

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Comment from Morten on 2007-05-29

2007-05-29T17:32:17Z

Thanks Dan Ullman. It also works on XP.

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Comment from Alv on 2007-04-27

2007-04-27T13:47:51Z

I have similar problem, and i know the cause. One of my hdds is hooked through bad ide cable (actually it sits in low-quality removable hdd rack). And now my XP keeps checking that hdd on every reboot (and doesn't find any errors).

Interesting fact: before there was other hdd connected to that cable and then no long check was performed on boot. System just occasionally then wrote error messages in system log saying "controller error/parity error" (something like that).

Possible cause in my case is that newer hdd supports higher Ultra DMA mode (5?) than my old hdd supported (2?).

My XP's
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager BootExecute
contains autocheck autochk * (XP default).

I'm still annoyed and don't know a solution.

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Comment from Ravi Agrawal on 2007-04-14

2007-04-14T14:35:07Z

Leo, don't you think there's something called "setting the Dirty Bit" in Windows XP that does the work of rechecking it everytime.

http://www.uninets.net/~blaisdel/whistler12.htm#DirtyBit

See the above link.

Ravi.

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Comment from Dan Ullman on 2007-04-10

2007-04-10T16:09:48Z

I have never had to do this in XP but there is an old 98 trick you might try. Start up in windows safe mode and let the scan disk run. If something flaky is running after the system boots that is causing windows not to change the "autocheck" entry it should not run.

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