Why did chkdsk run on boot?

[JXStern]

I haven't had an abnormal shutdown for months.

Hardly doing anything but web browsing, email, and editing on system.

Booted the system this morning and when the greeting screen came up,
where you choose users, it started running chkdsk.

It found a lot of stuff. Scared me when it said it was recovering a
bunch of orphaned files that went somewhere under \windows. Is there
a log somewhere? Rebooted clean a little later -- after I burned a
quick backup CD.

A couple of recent files were 0 length when I finally completed the
boot.

The only profile listed in \windows\profiles is all users - that's not
right, is it, should be default user, each individual user, etc?

The only unusual activity recently was that I cleared the IE cache
yesterday, that deletes about 900m of files. There were no error
messages or anything.

Would anybody blame this on XP, or it is more likely a disk/hardware
glitch? System is about eight months old, local white box brand.
I'll call and nag the shop Monday morning.

Joshua Stern

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

Profiles are in C:\Documents and Settings. Anything in Windows is left
over from your upgrade.

It usually takes some kind of shutdown glitch to cause scandisk to run.
Probably a good thing it did in your case, before things got so bad as
to be unrecoverable.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows



"JXStern" > wrote in
message ...
>
> The only profile listed in \windows\profiles is all users - that's not
> right, is it, should be default user, each individual user, etc?
>
> The only unusual activity recently was that I cleared the IE cache
> yesterday, that deletes about 900m of files. There were no error
> messages or anything.
>
> Would anybody blame this on XP, or it is more likely a disk/hardware
> glitch? System is about eight months old, local white box brand.
> I'll call and nag the shop Monday morning.
>
> Joshua Stern
>