Why did chkdsk run on boot?

[ben]

Best solution for you would be to go back in time using
your system manager. you can contact your computer cust.
service if you cant figure out how to do it under system
manager. this will fix your problem but your 900 megs of
stuff will be back
i suggest deleting in smaller portions and viewing what
you are getting rid of. good luck





>-----Original Message-----
>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
>
>.
>

[JXStern]

On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 15:07:34 -0700, "ben" > wrote:
>Best solution for you would be to go back in time using
>your system manager. you can contact your computer cust.
>service if you cant figure out how to do it under system
>manager. this will fix your problem but your 900 megs of
>stuff will be back
>i suggest deleting in smaller portions and viewing what
>you are getting rid of. good luck

I'm obviously poorly educated about XP. But I did at least find the
chkdsk log in the event log.

Will system restore really undo even a chkdsk? I had no idea.

And, is undoing a large chkdsk run a good idea?

I only lost one small file, a couple of hours work. Well, I suppose
there's one way to find out!

Joshua Stern




>>-----Original Message-----
>>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
>>
>>.
>>