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On boot up Win xp Pro wants to run CKDSK on my "H" Drive ths happens on each bootup but nothing is repaired
Hello,
I will try and be as succint in my description of the problem on my machine. It is a dual boot machine, with 3 parttions, that has XP Pro on the C: Win 7 was on the D: and the H drive is for storage of mp3 files and photographs. In the past 2 days whenever I boot to XP, CHKDSK wants to scan the "H" drive, it never finds anything but it scans it anyway. Originally when the problem started it would scan the C:\ drive too but now it's only the "H." I have removed Win 7 to try the Win 8 and 8.1 trial versions. In using them I was dragging files from one OS to another, maybe that was my mistake, I don't know. I know I moved some .jpgs to the "H" from Win 8.1 and probably Win 8 too. Today I used Acronis to install a month old image of XP that had no troubles. Yet on boot up it STILL wants to CHKDSK the "H" partition! So logically I am thinking that "what remained when I installed the image of XP made in July?" Well the only things I can think of is that the BIOS is the same, the HD is the same, and the "H" drive is the same. I even removed Win 8.1 to no avail. So all I have is a C and H partition and the D is unallocated I have looked for autoruns that may be making the call to run CHKDSK and I don't see any in MSCONFIG, Online Armor( my firewall) or in CCleaner or WinPatrol. Running Avast and TrendMicro and MalwareBytes show nothing. I will say that first on the "H" drive there is an odd folder that I DIDN'T put there and it has the name:6fa24fa22f7c6ac1f5086d482a62d59 It contains sub folders that have an MS EULA in them in various languages and a .dll file and an .xml. Why it's there I don't know but i cannot copy it off the drive or delete it, not even in safe mode. No idea if the problem is really with the H drive or not but that's what is asking to be scanned on every boot up. If I had the space I would move all the files from the H and move them elsewhere and format the partition again and put it all back, excluding that silly EULA folder. No idea how it got there and the EULA that is in English is nothing more than giving me permission to use the MS software, it doesn't even say what it is! I may be entirely misinsterpreting what the cause of the continual CHKDISK on "H",so I thought maybe someone more knowledgeable than I could help me sort it out. Many thanks in advance! Accomac |
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On boot up Win xp Pro wants to run CKDSK on my "H" Drive ths happens on each bootup but nothing is repaired
From: "Accomac"
Hello, I will try and be as succint in my description of the problem on my machine. It is a dual boot machine, with 3 parttions, that has XP Pro on the C: Win 7 was on the D: and the H drive is for storage of mp3 files and photographs. In the past 2 days whenever I boot to XP, CHKDSK wants to scan the "H" drive, it never finds anything but it scans it anyway. Originally when the problem started it would scan the C:\ drive too but now it's only the "H." I have removed Win 7 to try the Win 8 and 8.1 trial versions. In using them I was dragging files from one OS to another, maybe that was my mistake, I don't know. I know I moved some .jpgs to the "H" from Win 8.1 and probably Win 8 too. Today I used Acronis to install a month old image of XP that had no troubles. Yet on boot up it STILL wants to CHKDSK the "H" partition! So logically I am thinking that "what remained when I installed the image of XP made in July?" Well the only things I can think of is that the BIOS is the same, the HD is the same, and the "H" drive is the same. I even removed Win 8.1 to no avail. So all I have is a C and H partition and the D is unallocated I have looked for autoruns that may be making the call to run CHKDSK and I don't see any in MSCONFIG, Online Armor( my firewall) or in CCleaner or WinPatrol. Running Avast and TrendMicro and MalwareBytes show nothing. I will say that first on the "H" drive there is an odd folder that I DIDN'T put there and it has the name:6fa24fa22f7c6ac1f5086d482a62d59 It contains sub folders that have an MS EULA in them in various languages and a .dll file and an .xml. Why it's there I don't know but i cannot copy it off the drive or delete it, not even in safe mode. No idea if the problem is really with the H drive or not but that's what is asking to be scanned on every boot up. If I had the space I would move all the files from the H and move them elsewhere and format the partition again and put it all back, excluding that silly EULA folder. No idea how it got there and the EULA that is in English is nothing more than giving me permission to use the MS software, it doesn't even say what it is! I may be entirely misinsterpreting what the cause of the continual CHKDISK on "H",so I thought maybe someone more knowledgeable than I could help me sort it out. Many thanks in advance! Accomac What is drive "H:" PS: Folder "6fa24fa22f7c6ac1f5086d482a62d5" is a remnant of a Microsoft Update that fialed to remove the folder. If you don't have "access rights" you will have to take Ownerhip of the folder and files below it and thenm give your self, or a group you are a member of, full rights to delete it. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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On boot up Win xp Pro wants to run CKDSK on my "H" Drive thshappens on each bootup but nothing is repaired
Accomac wrote:
Hello, I will try and be as succint in my description of the problem on my machine. It is a dual boot machine, with 3 parttions, that has XP Pro on the C: Win 7 was on the D: and the H drive is for storage of mp3 files and photographs. In the past 2 days whenever I boot to XP, CHKDSK wants to scan the "H" drive, it never finds anything but it scans it anyway. Originally when the problem started it would scan the C:\ drive too but now it's only the "H." I have removed Win 7 to try the Win 8 and 8.1 trial versions. In using them I was dragging files from one OS to another, maybe that was my mistake, I don't know. I know I moved some .jpgs to the "H" from Win 8.1 and probably Win 8 too. Today I used Acronis to install a month old image of XP that had no troubles. Yet on boot up it STILL wants to CHKDSK the "H" partition! So logically I am thinking that "what remained when I installed the image of XP made in July?" Well the only things I can think of is that the BIOS is the same, the HD is the same, and the "H" drive is the same. I even removed Win 8.1 to no avail. So all I have is a C and H partition and the D is unallocated I have looked for autoruns that may be making the call to run CHKDSK and I don't see any in MSCONFIG, Online Armor( my firewall) or in CCleaner or WinPatrol. Running Avast and TrendMicro and MalwareBytes show nothing. I will say that first on the "H" drive there is an odd folder that I DIDN'T put there and it has the name:6fa24fa22f7c6ac1f5086d482a62d59 It contains sub folders that have an MS EULA in them in various languages and a .dll file and an .xml. Why it's there I don't know but i cannot copy it off the drive or delete it, not even in safe mode. No idea if the problem is really with the H drive or not but that's what is asking to be scanned on every boot up. If I had the space I would move all the files from the H and move them elsewhere and format the partition again and put it all back, excluding that silly EULA folder. No idea how it got there and the EULA that is in English is nothing more than giving me permission to use the MS software, it doesn't even say what it is! I may be entirely misinsterpreting what the cause of the continual CHKDISK on "H",so I thought maybe someone more knowledgeable than I could help me sort it out. Many thanks in advance! Accomac The CHKDSK is a side effect of you multi-booting WinXP and Win8 family. You can try this in a Windows 8 "cmd.exe" window, selecting Run as Administrator for the cmd.exe. powercfg /hibernate off or you can follow this GUI recipe. I've not read this description before, but this seems to make more sense than the theory I came up with. http://www.pagestart.com/win8dbchkdsk121912.html "Windows 8’s “Hybrid Boot” means that the "dirty bit" is “set” on any additional disk drives in your computer after you have shutdown Windows 8. Therefor the next time you boot your computer and select Windows 7 (or XP and Vista) from the boot menu Windows checks the status of the “dirt bit” on startup and as a result chkdsk is automatically run to validate the integrity of each additional disk drive and associated partitions." HTH, Paul |
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On boot up Win xp Pro wants to run CKDSK on my "H" Drive ths happens on each bootup but nothing is repaired
"Accomac" wrote in message
... Hello, I will try and be as succint in my description of the problem on my machine. It is a dual boot machine, with 3 parttions, that has XP Pro on the C: Win 7 was on the D: and the H drive is for storage of mp3 files and photographs. In the past 2 days whenever I boot to XP, CHKDSK wants to scan the "H" drive, it never finds anything but it scans it anyway. Originally when the problem started it would scan the C:\ drive too but now it's only the "H." I have removed Win 7 to try the Win 8 and 8.1 trial versions. In using them I was dragging files from one OS to another, maybe that was my mistake, I don't know. I know I moved some .jpgs to the "H" from Win 8.1 and probably Win 8 too. Today I used Acronis to install a month old image of XP that had no troubles. Yet on boot up it STILL wants to CHKDSK the "H" partition! So logically I am thinking that "what remained when I installed the image of XP made in July?" Well the only things I can think of is that the BIOS is the same, the HD is the same, and the "H" drive is the same. I even removed Win 8.1 to no avail. So all I have is a C and H partition and the D is unallocated I have looked for autoruns that may be making the call to run CHKDSK and I don't see any in MSCONFIG, Online Armor( my firewall) or in CCleaner or WinPatrol. Running Avast and TrendMicro and MalwareBytes show nothing. I will say that first on the "H" drive there is an odd folder that I DIDN'T put there and it has the name:6fa24fa22f7c6ac1f5086d482a62d59 It contains sub folders that have an MS EULA in them in various languages and a .dll file and an .xml. Why it's there I don't know but i cannot copy it off the drive or delete it, not even in safe mode. No idea if the problem is really with the H drive or not but that's what is asking to be scanned on every boot up. If I had the space I would move all the files from the H and move them elsewhere and format the partition again and put it all back, excluding that silly EULA folder. No idea how it got there and the EULA that is in English is nothing more than giving me permission to use the MS software, it doesn't even say what it is! I may be entirely misinsterpreting what the cause of the continual CHKDISK on "H",so I thought maybe someone more knowledgeable than I could help me sort it out. Many thanks in advance! For XP Click Start Click Control Panel Click Administrative Tools Click Computer Management Storage Disk Management Volume Right Click on The Drive Click Properties Click Tab Tools Error-checking Check Now Check mark Automatically fix file system errors Start Disk Check Complete Click Ok Chick Ok Chick Ok There it Fix Now do a Disk Defragmenter on too........................... |
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On boot up Win xp Pro wants to run CKDSK on my "H" Drive ths happens on each bootup but nothing is repaired
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 16:46:34 -0400, "David H. Lipman"
wrote: From: "Accomac" Hello, I will try and be as succint in my description of the problem on my machine. It is a dual boot machine, with 3 parttions, that has XP Pro on the C: Win 7 was on the D: and the H drive is for storage of mp3 files and photographs. In the past 2 days whenever I boot to XP, CHKDSK wants to scan the "H" drive, it never finds anything but it scans it anyway. Originally when the problem started it would scan the C:\ drive too but now it's only the "H." snip Many thanks in advance! Accomac What is drive "H:" PS: Folder "6fa24fa22f7c6ac1f5086d482a62d5" is a remnant of a Microsoft Update that fialed to remove the folder. If you don't have "access rights" you will have to take Ownerhip of the folder and files below it and thenm give your self, or a group you are a member of, full rights to delete it. Hi David, I shouldn't call it a drive per se it's merely a 3rd partition on the HD. But since it appears as another drive that's what I was calling it.The drive has only 3 partitions. C D and H. The leftover folder has been there since November 2012 but the chkdsk business just started yesterday or the day before. So I am dubious that the folder is really the cause of the issue. But in an effort to be thorough, I mentioned it. At least now I know how to remove it! Thank you! Accomac |
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On boot up Win xp Pro wants to run CKDSK on my "H" Drive ths happens on each bootup but nothing is repaired
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:55:04 -0400, Paul wrote:
Accomac wrote: Hello, I will try and be as succint in my description of the problem on my machine. It is a dual boot machine, with 3 parttions, that has XP Pro on the C: Win 7 was on the D: and the H drive is for storage of mp3 files and photographs. In the past 2 days whenever I boot to XP, CHKDSK wants to scan the "H" drive, it never finds anything but it scans it anyway. Originally when the problem started it would scan the C:\ drive too but now it's only the "H." SNIPPED Many thanks in advance! Accomac The CHKDSK is a side effect of you multi-booting WinXP and Win8 family. You can try this in a Windows 8 "cmd.exe" window, selecting Run as Administrator for the cmd.exe. powercfg /hibernate off or you can follow this GUI recipe. I've not read this description before, but this seems to make more sense than the theory I came up with. http://www.pagestart.com/win8dbchkdsk121912.html "Windows 8’s “Hybrid Boot” means that the "dirty bit" is “set” on any additional disk drives in your computer after you have shutdown Windows 8. Therefor the next time you boot your computer and select Windows 7 (or XP and Vista) from the boot menu Windows checks the status of the “dirt bit” on startup and as a result chkdsk is automatically run to validate the integrity of each additional disk drive and associated partitions." HTH, Paul Hi Paul, I no longer even have ANY version of 7, 8 or 8.1 on my HD so I can't really try your first suggestion. I do have an image of Win 8 that I could potentially install on the "D" partition IE: One of 3 partitions the C has XP on it and the D was where the various Win 7 and 8 & 8.1 resided. Right now that partition is unallocated space not even formatted. I agree about the hibernate setting in all versions of 8. My system doesn't like it and when it started up there would always be an error of some kind. I never had that trouble with 7 however, it hibernated and slept, no matter which I chose, just fine. Sadly that's all it seemed to do well. If it wasn't such an unpredictable thing I never would have tried to use Win 8 or 8.1! I haven't read the link you thoughtfully provided me and I wonder if it tells you how to get rid of the "dirty bit". Clearly CHKDSK doesn't find it no matter how often it runs, as it did for this session. Oddly enough I have had the dual boot system for many months using XP and 7 and had no ill effects. I was running Win 8 in a virtual machine inside of 7. But then I got the brigh idea to remove 7 and install Win 8 on the partition that 7 was using. Guess that's where I went off the rails.... sigh I should have stuck with the VM and ran all the "test" versions of 8, 32 & 64 and 8.1, 32 & 64. I'd be better off I bet! Watch this space, I'll read your link and see what it says is the solution to my dilemna. Thank you! Accomac |
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On boot up Win xp Pro wants to run CKDSK on my "H" Drive thshappens on each bootup but nothing is repaired
Accomac wrote:
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:55:04 -0400, Paul wrote: Accomac wrote: Hello, I will try and be as succint in my description of the problem on my machine. It is a dual boot machine, with 3 parttions, that has XP Pro on the C: Win 7 was on the D: and the H drive is for storage of mp3 files and photographs. In the past 2 days whenever I boot to XP, CHKDSK wants to scan the "H" drive, it never finds anything but it scans it anyway. Originally when the problem started it would scan the C:\ drive too but now it's only the "H." SNIPPED Many thanks in advance! Accomac The CHKDSK is a side effect of you multi-booting WinXP and Win8 family. You can try this in a Windows 8 "cmd.exe" window, selecting Run as Administrator for the cmd.exe. powercfg /hibernate off or you can follow this GUI recipe. I've not read this description before, but this seems to make more sense than the theory I came up with. http://www.pagestart.com/win8dbchkdsk121912.html "Windows 8’s “Hybrid Boot” means that the "dirty bit" is “set” on any additional disk drives in your computer after you have shutdown Windows 8. Therefor the next time you boot your computer and select Windows 7 (or XP and Vista) from the boot menu Windows checks the status of the “dirt bit” on startup and as a result chkdsk is automatically run to validate the integrity of each additional disk drive and associated partitions." HTH, Paul Hi Paul, I no longer even have ANY version of 7, 8 or 8.1 on my HD so I can't really try your first suggestion. I do have an image of Win 8 that I could potentially install on the "D" partition IE: One of 3 partitions the C has XP on it and the D was where the various Win 7 and 8 & 8.1 resided. Right now that partition is unallocated space not even formatted. I agree about the hibernate setting in all versions of 8. My system doesn't like it and when it started up there would always be an error of some kind. I never had that trouble with 7 however, it hibernated and slept, no matter which I chose, just fine. Sadly that's all it seemed to do well. If it wasn't such an unpredictable thing I never would have tried to use Win 8 or 8.1! I haven't read the link you thoughtfully provided me and I wonder if it tells you how to get rid of the "dirty bit". Clearly CHKDSK doesn't find it no matter how often it runs, as it did for this session. Oddly enough I have had the dual boot system for many months using XP and 7 and had no ill effects. I was running Win 8 in a virtual machine inside of 7. But then I got the brigh idea to remove 7 and install Win 8 on the partition that 7 was using. Guess that's where I went off the rails.... sigh I should have stuck with the VM and ran all the "test" versions of 8, 32 & 64 and 8.1, 32 & 64. I'd be better off I bet! Watch this space, I'll read your link and see what it says is the solution to my dilemna. Thank you! Accomac The "dirty" bit is cleared by CHKDSK. I've not seen anything to suggest there is a utility that can just make it go away. Many people have asked for such things, due to getting stuck in a loop with the dirty bit refusing to go away (one dirty bit per partition). The trick is to execute CHKDSK just the right way, to clear it on its own. ******* There is a registry key, with room for executables to be run before the file system is mounted. The registry key is "BootExecute" and a typical value is "autochk". The registry key can be modified, if for example, the OS wants C: to be scanned by CHKDSK on the next startup (before C: is mounted). I think more than one line of stuff to do, can be stored in that key. BootExecute gives a way to "schedule" a check, versus setting the Dirty bit and having autochk catch it. Something like that. You can cancel a scheduled check, but I think that just modifies the contents of the BootExecute key. In any case, you can use Regedit, and have a look for BootExecute. I checked mine just now. There is room in the editing tool, for multiple lines. But all mine has today is: autocheck autochk * and I'm on WinXP. ******* You can query the current state of the Dirty bit, with fsutil. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc788091.aspx fsutil dirty query C: Have fun, Paul |
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On boot up Win xp Pro wants to run CKDSK on my "H" Drive ths happens on each bootup but nothing is repaired
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:01:57 -0600, "Hot-Text"
wrote: "Accomac" wrote in message .. . Hello, I will try and be as succint in my description of the problem on my machine. It is a dual boot machine, with 3 parttions, that has XP Pro on the C: Win 7 was on the D: and the H drive is for storage of mp3 files and photographs. In the past 2 days whenever I boot to XP, CHKDSK wants to scan the "H" drive, it never finds anything but it scans it anyway. Originally when the problem started it would scan the C:\ drive too but now it's only EL SNIPPO Many thanks in advance! For XP Click Start Click Control Panel Click Administrative Tools Click Computer Management Storage Disk Management Volume Right Click on The Drive Click Properties Click Tab Tools Error-checking Check Now Check mark Automatically fix file system errors Start Disk Check Complete Click Ok Chick Ok Chick Ok There it Fix Now do a Disk Defragmenter on too........................... Hi Hot-Text, Your solution worked! I never should have put the various versions of 8 directly on the HD. They should have been put in a VM on the Win 7 partition instead of blowing it out and installing the 8's right onto the "D" partition!! Regards, Accomac |
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On boot up Win xp Pro wants to run CKDSK on my "H" Drive ths happens on each bootup but nothing is repaired
From: "Accomac"
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 16:46:34 -0400, "David H. Lipman" wrote: From: "Accomac" Hello, I will try and be as succint in my description of the problem on my machine. It is a dual boot machine, with 3 parttions, that has XP Pro on the C: Win 7 was on the D: and the H drive is for storage of mp3 files and photographs. In the past 2 days whenever I boot to XP, CHKDSK wants to scan the "H" drive, it never finds anything but it scans it anyway. Originally when the problem started it would scan the C:\ drive too but now it's only the "H." snip Many thanks in advance! Accomac What is drive "H:" PS: Folder "6fa24fa22f7c6ac1f5086d482a62d5" is a remnant of a Microsoft Update that fialed to remove the folder. If you don't have "access rights" you will have to take Ownerhip of the folder and files below it and thenm give your self, or a group you are a member of, full rights to delete it. Hi David, I shouldn't call it a drive per se it's merely a 3rd partition on the HD. But since it appears as another drive that's what I was calling it.The drive has only 3 partitions. C D and H. The leftover folder has been there since November 2012 but the chkdsk business just started yesterday or the day before. So I am dubious that the folder is really the cause of the issue. But in an effort to be thorough, I mentioned it. At least now I know how to remove it! Thank you! Accomac Get the manufacturer's dignaostic software in ISO format for the hard disk manufacturer representing this mult-partitioned hard disk. Burn a CDROM and run the diagnostics just in case... -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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On boot up Win xp Pro wants to run CKDSK on my "H" Drive ths happens on each bootup but nothing is repaired
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:34:27 -0400, Paul wrote:
Accomac wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:55:04 -0400, Paul wrote: Accomac wrote: Hello, I will try and be as succint in my description of the problem on my machine. It is a dual boot machine, with 3 parttions, that has XP Pro on the C: Win 7 was on the D: and the H drive is for storage of mp3 files and photographs. In the past 2 days whenever I boot to XP, CHKDSK wants to scan the "H" drive, it never finds anything but it scans it anyway. Originally when the problem started it would scan the C:\ drive too but now it's only the "H." SNIPPED Many thanks in advance! Accomac The CHKDSK is a side effect of you multi-booting WinXP and Win8 family. You can try this in a Windows 8 "cmd.exe" window, selecting Run as Administrator for the cmd.exe. powercfg /hibernate off or you can follow this GUI recipe. I've not read this description before, but this seems to make more sense than the theory I came up with. http://www.pagestart.com/win8dbchkdsk121912.html "Windows 8’s “Hybrid Boot” means that the "dirty bit" is “set” on any additional disk drives in your computer after you have shutdown Windows 8. Therefor the next time you boot your computer and select Windows 7 (or XP and Vista) from the boot menu Windows checks the status of the “dirt bit” on startup and as a result chkdsk is automatically run to validate the integrity of each additional disk drive and associated partitions." HTH, Paul Hi Paul, I no longer even have ANY version of 7, 8 or 8.1 on my HD so I can't really try your first suggestion. I do have an image of Win 8 that I could potentially install on the "D" partition IE: One of 3 partitions the C has XP on it and the D was where the various Win 7 and 8 & 8.1 resided. Right now that partition is unallocated space not even formatted. I agree about the hibernate setting in all versions of 8. My system doesn't like it and when it started up there would always be an error of some kind. I never had that trouble with 7 however, it hibernated and slept, no matter which I chose, just fine. Sadly that's all it seemed to do well. If it wasn't such an unpredictable thing I never would have tried to use Win 8 or 8.1! I haven't read the link you thoughtfully provided me and I wonder if it tells you how to get rid of the "dirty bit". Clearly CHKDSK doesn't find it no matter how often it runs, as it did for this session. Oddly enough I have had the dual boot system for many months using XP and 7 and had no ill effects. I was running Win 8 in a virtual machine inside of 7. But then I got the brigh idea to remove 7 and install Win 8 on the partition that 7 was using. Guess that's where I went off the rails.... sigh I should have stuck with the VM and ran all the "test" versions of 8, 32 & 64 and 8.1, 32 & 64. I'd be better off I bet! Watch this space, I'll read your link and see what it says is the solution to my dilemna. Thank you! Accomac The "dirty" bit is cleared by CHKDSK. I've not seen anything to suggest there is a utility that can just make it go away. Many people have asked for such things, due to getting stuck in a loop with the dirty bit refusing to go away (one dirty bit per partition). The trick is to execute CHKDSK just the right way, to clear it on its own. ******* There is a registry key, with room for executables to be run before the file system is mounted. The registry key is "BootExecute" and a typical value is "autochk". The registry key can be modified, if for example, the OS wants C: to be scanned by CHKDSK on the next startup (before C: is mounted). I think more than one line of stuff to do, can be stored in that key. BootExecute gives a way to "schedule" a check, versus setting the Dirty bit and having autochk catch it. Something like that. You can cancel a scheduled check, but I think that just modifies the contents of the BootExecute key. In any case, you can use Regedit, and have a look for BootExecute. I checked mine just now. There is room in the editing tool, for multiple lines. But all mine has today is: autocheck autochk * and I'm on WinXP. ******* You can query the current state of the Dirty bit, with fsutil. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc788091.aspx fsutil dirty query C: Have fun, Paul Hi Paul, My dirty bit was on the H partition and I used the method posted by Hot-Text to solve it. So far I am able to boot to XP with no CHKDSK startup, since I told it to fix the errors. I should have stayed with what I had previously IE: XP on the C: and Win 7 on the D with a Vbox program running Win 8. I had no trouble that way. It would seem that should keep any dirty bits from escaping the VM and getting on another partition. How the bit got on my 3rd partition that has no OS on it is a mystery to me. A virus can't jump across a partition but yet this dirty bit seems to have done it. scratching head Thanks for the information I will save it all just in case of another screw up. All I can say is that Acronis is worth the small cost to own it. I can easily restore the image of the Win 7 and VM with Win 8 on it back to the D partition and go from there! From the RUN command I was unable to try fsutil. I entered it and ran it but it showed nothing. I did run it AFTER I had already repaired the bit so maybe that's why or maybe it's intended for Win 7 8 or 8.1 I dunno! Long live XP Pro! Win 7 64 for me has been a disappointment, I should have gotten the 32 bit version I suppose. yes Win 8 is nice and I see some things to like about it but right now it's not a must have item. I find I can use it easily but I am always getting some sort of error from one version or another. But I understand that the trial versions aren't the final ones so I hope the errors will be fixed when the release date comes. If I have serious workd to do I always default to XP! Cheers, Accomac |
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On boot up Win xp Pro wants to run CKDSK on my "H" Drive ths happens on each bootup but nothing is repaired
Paul wrote:
Accomac wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:55:04 -0400, Paul wrote: Accomac wrote: Hello, I will try and be as succint in my description of the problem on my machine. It is a dual boot machine, with 3 parttions, that has XP Pro on the C: Win 7 was on the D: and the H drive is for storage of mp3 files and photographs. In the past 2 days whenever I boot to XP, CHKDSK wants to scan the "H" drive, it never finds anything but it scans it anyway. Originally when the problem started it would scan the C:\ drive too but now it's only the "H." SNIPPED Many thanks in advance! Accomac The CHKDSK is a side effect of you multi-booting WinXP and Win8 family. You can try this in a Windows 8 "cmd.exe" window, selecting Run as Administrator for the cmd.exe. powercfg /hibernate off or you can follow this GUI recipe. I've not read this description before, but this seems to make more sense than the theory I came up with. http://www.pagestart.com/win8dbchkdsk121912.html "Windows 8â?Ts â?oHybrid Bootâ?ť means that the "dirty bit" is â?osetâ?ť on any additional disk drives in your computer after you have shutdown Windows 8. Therefor the next time you boot your computer and select Windows 7 (or XP and Vista) from the boot menu Windows checks the status of the â?odirt bitâ?ť on startup and as a result chkdsk is automatically run to validate the integrity of each additional disk drive and associated partitions." HTH, Paul Hi Paul, I no longer even have ANY version of 7, 8 or 8.1 on my HD so I can't really try your first suggestion. I do have an image of Win 8 that I could potentially install on the "D" partition IE: One of 3 partitions the C has XP on it and the D was where the various Win 7 and 8 & 8.1 resided. Right now that partition is unallocated space not even formatted. I agree about the hibernate setting in all versions of 8. My system doesn't like it and when it started up there would always be an error of some kind. I never had that trouble with 7 however, it hibernated and slept, no matter which I chose, just fine. Sadly that's all it seemed to do well. If it wasn't such an unpredictable thing I never would have tried to use Win 8 or 8.1! I haven't read the link you thoughtfully provided me and I wonder if it tells you how to get rid of the "dirty bit". Clearly CHKDSK doesn't find it no matter how often it runs, as it did for this session. Oddly enough I have had the dual boot system for many months using XP and 7 and had no ill effects. I was running Win 8 in a virtual machine inside of 7. But then I got the brigh idea to remove 7 and install Win 8 on the partition that 7 was using. Guess that's where I went off the rails.... sigh I should have stuck with the VM and ran all the "test" versions of 8, 32 & 64 and 8.1, 32 & 64. I'd be better off I bet! Watch this space, I'll read your link and see what it says is the solution to my dilemna. Thank you! Accomac The "dirty" bit is cleared by CHKDSK. I've not seen anything to suggest there is a utility that can just make it go away. Many people have asked for such things, due to getting stuck in a loop with the dirty bit refusing to go away (one dirty bit per partition). The trick is to execute CHKDSK just the right way, to clear it on its own. ******* There is a registry key, with room for executables to be run before the file system is mounted. The registry key is "BootExecute" and a typical value is "autochk". The registry key can be modified, if for example, the OS wants C: to be scanned by CHKDSK on the next startup (before C: is mounted). I think more than one line of stuff to do, can be stored in that key. BootExecute gives a way to "schedule" a check, versus setting the Dirty bit and having autochk catch it. Something like that. You can cancel a scheduled check, but I think that just modifies the contents of the BootExecute key. In any case, you can use Regedit, and have a look for BootExecute. I checked mine just now. There is room in the editing tool, for multiple lines. But all mine has today is: autocheck autochk * and I'm on WinXP. ******* You can query the current state of the Dirty bit, with fsutil. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc788091.aspx fsutil dirty query C: Have fun, Paul Paul, I thought we discussed this once before, and found that running "chkntfs" instead of "chkdsk" (after bootup) could clear that dirty bit. (But I hadn't been following this whole thread, and maybe he's talking about something else). I do know that I had to do this if I ran chkdsk c:/f, or I got stuck in an endless loop. ?? |
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On boot up Win xp Pro wants to run CKDSK on my "H" Drive ths happens on each bootup but nothing is repaired
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:34:27 -0400, Paul wrote:
Accomac wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:55:04 -0400, Paul wrote: Accomac wrote: Hello, I will try and be as succint in my description of the problem on my machine. It is a dual boot machine, with 3 parttions, that has XP Pro on the C: Win 7 was on the D: and the H drive is for storage of mp3 files and photographs. In the past 2 days whenever I boot to XP, CHKDSK wants to scan the "H" drive, it never finds anything but it scans it anyway. Originally when the problem started it would scan the C:\ drive too but now it's only the "H." SNIPPED Many thanks in advance! Accomac The CHKDSK is a side effect of you multi-booting WinXP and Win8 family. You can try this in a Windows 8 "cmd.exe" window, selecting Run as Administrator for the cmd.exe. powercfg /hibernate off or you can follow this GUI recipe. I've not read this description before, but this seems to make more sense than the theory I came up with. http://www.pagestart.com/win8dbchkdsk121912.html "Windows 8’s “Hybrid Boot” means that the "dirty bit" is “set” on any additional disk drives in your computer after you have shutdown Windows 8. Therefor the next time you boot your computer and select Windows 7 (or XP and Vista) from the boot menu Windows checks the status of the “dirt bit” on startup and as a result chkdsk is automatically run to validate the integrity of each additional disk drive and associated partitions." HTH, Paul Hi Paul, I no longer even have ANY version of 7, 8 or 8.1 on my HD so I can't really try your first suggestion. I do have an image of Win 8 that I could potentially install on the "D" partition IE: One of 3 partitions the C has XP on it and the D was where the various Win 7 and 8 & 8.1 resided. Right now that partition is unallocated space not even formatted. I agree about the hibernate setting in all versions of 8. My system doesn't like it and when it started up there would always be an error of some kind. I never had that trouble with 7 however, it hibernated and slept, no matter which I chose, just fine. Sadly that's all it seemed to do well. If it wasn't such an unpredictable thing I never would have tried to use Win 8 or 8.1! I haven't read the link you thoughtfully provided me and I wonder if it tells you how to get rid of the "dirty bit". Clearly CHKDSK doesn't find it no matter how often it runs, as it did for this session. Oddly enough I have had the dual boot system for many months using XP and 7 and had no ill effects. I was running Win 8 in a virtual machine inside of 7. But then I got the brigh idea to remove 7 and install Win 8 on the partition that 7 was using. Guess that's where I went off the rails.... sigh I should have stuck with the VM and ran all the "test" versions of 8, 32 & 64 and 8.1, 32 & 64. I'd be better off I bet! Watch this space, I'll read your link and see what it says is the solution to my dilemna. Thank you! Accomac The "dirty" bit is cleared by CHKDSK. I've not seen anything to suggest there is a utility that can just make it go away. Many people have asked for such things, due to getting stuck in a loop with the dirty bit refusing to go away (one dirty bit per partition). The trick is to execute CHKDSK just the right way, to clear it on its own. ******* There is a registry key, with room for executables to be run before the file system is mounted. The registry key is "BootExecute" and a typical value is "autochk". The registry key can be modified, if for example, the OS wants C: to be scanned by CHKDSK on the next startup (before C: is mounted). I think more than one line of stuff to do, can be stored in that key. BootExecute gives a way to "schedule" a check, versus setting the Dirty bit and having autochk catch it. Something like that. You can cancel a scheduled check, but I think that just modifies the contents of the BootExecute key. In any case, you can use Regedit, and have a look for BootExecute. I checked mine just now. There is room in the editing tool, for multiple lines. But all mine has today is: autocheck autochk * and I'm on WinXP. ******* You can query the current state of the Dirty bit, with fsutil. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc788091.aspx fsutil dirty query C: Have fun, Paul Hi Paul Well I looked for giggles in my registry and found my entry for BootExecute was autocheck autochk * aswboot.exe /Mt:3230dd07806e Whatever that means.... I was able to stop the thing from constantly checking and rechecking by using what Hot_Text posted and I thank him for it. Would you remove all the extra stuff behind the autochk * ??? I intend on putting the image of Win 7 64 back on the machine with the VM running Win 8 Enterprise. Thanks, Accomac |
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On boot up Win xp Pro wants to run CKDSK on my "H" Drive thshappens on each bootup but nothing is repaired
Accomac wrote:
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:34:27 -0400, Paul wrote: Accomac wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:55:04 -0400, Paul wrote: Accomac wrote: Hello, I will try and be as succint in my description of the problem on my machine. It is a dual boot machine, with 3 parttions, that has XP Pro on the C: Win 7 was on the D: and the H drive is for storage of mp3 files and photographs. In the past 2 days whenever I boot to XP, CHKDSK wants to scan the "H" drive, it never finds anything but it scans it anyway. Originally when the problem started it would scan the C:\ drive too but now it's only the "H." SNIPPED Many thanks in advance! Accomac The CHKDSK is a side effect of you multi-booting WinXP and Win8 family. You can try this in a Windows 8 "cmd.exe" window, selecting Run as Administrator for the cmd.exe. powercfg /hibernate off or you can follow this GUI recipe. I've not read this description before, but this seems to make more sense than the theory I came up with. http://www.pagestart.com/win8dbchkdsk121912.html "Windows 8’s “Hybrid Boot” means that the "dirty bit" is “set” on any additional disk drives in your computer after you have shutdown Windows 8. Therefor the next time you boot your computer and select Windows 7 (or XP and Vista) from the boot menu Windows checks the status of the “dirt bit” on startup and as a result chkdsk is automatically run to validate the integrity of each additional disk drive and associated partitions." HTH, Paul Hi Paul, I no longer even have ANY version of 7, 8 or 8.1 on my HD so I can't really try your first suggestion. I do have an image of Win 8 that I could potentially install on the "D" partition IE: One of 3 partitions the C has XP on it and the D was where the various Win 7 and 8 & 8.1 resided. Right now that partition is unallocated space not even formatted. I agree about the hibernate setting in all versions of 8. My system doesn't like it and when it started up there would always be an error of some kind. I never had that trouble with 7 however, it hibernated and slept, no matter which I chose, just fine. Sadly that's all it seemed to do well. If it wasn't such an unpredictable thing I never would have tried to use Win 8 or 8.1! I haven't read the link you thoughtfully provided me and I wonder if it tells you how to get rid of the "dirty bit". Clearly CHKDSK doesn't find it no matter how often it runs, as it did for this session. Oddly enough I have had the dual boot system for many months using XP and 7 and had no ill effects. I was running Win 8 in a virtual machine inside of 7. But then I got the brigh idea to remove 7 and install Win 8 on the partition that 7 was using. Guess that's where I went off the rails.... sigh I should have stuck with the VM and ran all the "test" versions of 8, 32 & 64 and 8.1, 32 & 64. I'd be better off I bet! Watch this space, I'll read your link and see what it says is the solution to my dilemna. Thank you! Accomac The "dirty" bit is cleared by CHKDSK. I've not seen anything to suggest there is a utility that can just make it go away. Many people have asked for such things, due to getting stuck in a loop with the dirty bit refusing to go away (one dirty bit per partition). The trick is to execute CHKDSK just the right way, to clear it on its own. ******* There is a registry key, with room for executables to be run before the file system is mounted. The registry key is "BootExecute" and a typical value is "autochk". The registry key can be modified, if for example, the OS wants C: to be scanned by CHKDSK on the next startup (before C: is mounted). I think more than one line of stuff to do, can be stored in that key. BootExecute gives a way to "schedule" a check, versus setting the Dirty bit and having autochk catch it. Something like that. You can cancel a scheduled check, but I think that just modifies the contents of the BootExecute key. In any case, you can use Regedit, and have a look for BootExecute. I checked mine just now. There is room in the editing tool, for multiple lines. But all mine has today is: autocheck autochk * and I'm on WinXP. ******* You can query the current state of the Dirty bit, with fsutil. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc788091.aspx fsutil dirty query C: Have fun, Paul Hi Paul Well I looked for giggles in my registry and found my entry for BootExecute was autocheck autochk * aswboot.exe /Mt:3230dd07806e Whatever that means.... I was able to stop the thing from constantly checking and rechecking by using what Hot_Text posted and I thank him for it. Would you remove all the extra stuff behind the autochk * ??? I intend on putting the image of Win 7 64 back on the machine with the VM running Win 8 Enterprise. Thanks, Accomac Don't do that, until you research where the "aswboot.exe" came from. Looks like some software wants to take advantage of the BootExecute key. Sometimes malware does that. If you can actually find an aswboot.exe file, you can upload it to virustotal.com . Aha! Aswboot belongs to Avast Antivirus. So rather than malware, it's one of the "good guys" who is using BootExecute for early access to the computer. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/file...exe-41400.html So leave that Registry entry alone! It's a good guy (by name). You can still upload to virustotal.com if you want. Be by nature suspicious - "trust, but verify". Paul |
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On boot up Win xp Pro wants to run CKDSK on my "H" Drive ths happens on each bootup but nothing is repaired
"Accomac" wrote in message
... On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:01:57 -0600, "Hot-Text" wrote: "Accomac" wrote in message . .. Hello, I will try and be as succint in my description of the problem on my machine. It is a dual boot machine, with 3 parttions, that has XP Pro on the C: Win 7 was on the D: and the H drive is for storage of mp3 files and photographs. In the past 2 days whenever I boot to XP, CHKDSK wants to scan the "H" drive, it never finds anything but it scans it anyway. Originally when the problem started it would scan the C:\ drive too but now it's only EL SNIPPO Many thanks in advance! For XP Click Start Click Control Panel Click Administrative Tools Click Computer Management Storage Disk Management Volume Right Click on The Drive Click Properties Click Tab Tools Error-checking Check Now Check mark Automatically fix file system errors Start Disk Check Complete Click Ok Chick Ok Chick Ok There it Fix Now do a Disk Defragmenter on too........................... Hi Hot-Text, Your solution worked! I never should have put the various versions of 8 directly on the HD. They should have been put in a VM on the Win 7 partition instead of blowing it out and installing the 8's right onto the "D" partition!! You Are Welcome Accomac J. P. Gilliver (John) Know that one too |
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