How do you cancel a boot-time disk scan in WindowsXP Home

My oldest hard-drive is an EIDE Western Digital 120-JB drive that is on
it's last legs but still has data to big to back up on burned media. I
don't have enough space left on my other SATA drives to back everything up
on another drive. I tried to run a Norton Utilities Disk Doctor scan on it
and it fails at 56% of the first part of the scan and crashes Norton. I
tried Windows Disk Scan and it also failed the same point, and downloaded
Western Digital Diagnostics for DOS floppy. When I tried to run it, the
software said the drive had fatal errors and they couldn't be fixed. After
all this, I now have boot-time scan early in Windows boot for this drive
that starts and if let run it locks the system at that point with the only
alternative a Reset to reboot and hit key at the boot scan to cancel it so
Windows will boot. Every time I do restart, the system tries to run this
boot-time scan again and has to be canceled to get Windows to open again.
I've been looking everywhere in Windows, but can't find way to clear the
requirement to run this scan, and can't unplug the drive till the data has
been backed up onto external hard-drive I expect to come in next week.
Where does Windows hide the setting for scheduled scans?
Herb

I assume that you want to bypass Windows chkdsk function at startup. If so, do
this:

Open a Command Prompt window and enter "fsutil dirty query c:" without the
quotes. (If you're problem is not the c drive, replace c: accordingly.)

It should reply that the volume is dirty.

If so, now enter "chkntfs /x c:" w/o quotes. (If you're problem is not the c
drive, replace c: accordingly.)

The X tells Windows to NOT check that particular drive on the next reboot. At
this time, manually reboot your computer, it should not do a Chkdsk and take you
directly to Windows.

"Cyborg-HAF" wrote in message
...
My oldest hard-drive is an EIDE Western Digital 120-JB drive that is on
it's last legs but still has data to big to back up on burned media. I don't
have enough space left on my other SATA drives to back everything up on
another drive. I tried to run a Norton Utilities Disk Doctor scan on it and
it fails at 56% of the first part of the scan and crashes Norton. I tried
Windows Disk Scan and it also failed the same point, and downloaded Western
Digital Diagnostics for DOS floppy. When I tried to run it, the software said
the drive had fatal errors and they couldn't be fixed. After all this, I now
have boot-time scan early in Windows boot for this drive that starts and if
let run it locks the system at that point with the only alternative a Reset to
reboot and hit key at the boot scan to cancel it so Windows will boot. Every
time I do restart, the system tries to run this boot-time scan again and has
to be canceled to get Windows to open again. I've been looking everywhere in
Windows, but can't find way to clear the requirement to run this scan, and
can't unplug the drive till the data has been backed up onto external
hard-drive I expect to come in next week. Where does Windows hide the setting
for scheduled scans?
Herb

Oops typo......."you're problem" should be "your problem" in two places.

My bad.

"David Webb" wrote in message
...
I assume that you want to bypass Windows chkdsk function at startup. If so, do
this:

Open a Command Prompt window and enter "fsutil dirty query c:" without the
quotes. (If you're problem is not the c drive, replace c: accordingly.)

It should reply that the volume is dirty.

If so, now enter "chkntfs /x c:" w/o quotes. (If you're problem is not the c
drive, replace c: accordingly.)

The X tells Windows to NOT check that particular drive on the next reboot. At
this time, manually reboot your computer, it should not do a Chkdsk and take
you directly to Windows.

"Cyborg-HAF" wrote in message
...
My oldest hard-drive is an EIDE Western Digital 120-JB drive that is on
it's last legs but still has data to big to back up on burned media. I don't
have enough space left on my other SATA drives to back everything up on
another drive. I tried to run a Norton Utilities Disk Doctor scan on it and
it fails at 56% of the first part of the scan and crashes Norton. I tried
Windows Disk Scan and it also failed the same point, and downloaded Western
Digital Diagnostics for DOS floppy. When I tried to run it, the software
said the drive had fatal errors and they couldn't be fixed. After all this,
I now have boot-time scan early in Windows boot for this drive that starts
and if let run it locks the system at that point with the only alternative a
Reset to reboot and hit key at the boot scan to cancel it so Windows will
boot. Every time I do restart, the system tries to run this boot-time scan
again and has to be canceled to get Windows to open again. I've been looking
everywhere in Windows, but can't find way to clear the requirement to run
this scan, and can't unplug the drive till the data has been backed up onto
external hard-drive I expect to come in next week. Where does Windows hide
the setting for scheduled scans?
Herb

Why not copy the files/data to another IDE hd,use xps XCOPY,its already
installed with the OS.A IDE hd,WDC,or Seagate only runs about 35.00

"Cyborg-HAF" wrote:

My oldest hard-drive is an EIDE Western Digital 120-JB drive that is on
it's last legs but still has data to big to back up on burned media. I
don't have enough space left on my other SATA drives to back everything up
on another drive. I tried to run a Norton Utilities Disk Doctor scan on it
and it fails at 56% of the first part of the scan and crashes Norton. I
tried Windows Disk Scan and it also failed the same point, and downloaded
Western Digital Diagnostics for DOS floppy. When I tried to run it, the
software said the drive had fatal errors and they couldn't be fixed. After
all this, I now have boot-time scan early in Windows boot for this drive
that starts and if let run it locks the system at that point with the only
alternative a Reset to reboot and hit key at the boot scan to cancel it so
Windows will boot. Every time I do restart, the system tries to run this
boot-time scan again and has to be canceled to get Windows to open again.
I've been looking everywhere in Windows, but can't find way to clear the
requirement to run this scan, and can't unplug the drive till the data has
been backed up onto external hard-drive I expect to come in next week.
Where does Windows hide the setting for scheduled scans?
Herb


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The bad drive is just data storage drive. I don't have enough drive
space to back it all up, and don't have spare drive for few days yet to give
me back up space. The drive is already starting to corrupt data. This boot
problem is driving me nuts everytime I restart my system, and have to sit
there ready to hit key to keep it from running the scan and hanging. I
have no interest in another EIDE hard drive, and will junk this drive along
with the first that had hard head crashes that trashed it.
Herb

"Andrew E." wrote in message
...
Why not copy the files/data to another IDE hd,use xps XCOPY,its already
installed with the OS.A IDE hd,WDC,or Seagate only runs about 35.00

"Cyborg-HAF" wrote:

My oldest hard-drive is an EIDE Western Digital 120-JB drive that is
on
it's last legs but still has data to big to back up on burned media. I
don't have enough space left on my other SATA drives to back everything
up
on another drive. I tried to run a Norton Utilities Disk Doctor scan on
it
and it fails at 56% of the first part of the scan and crashes Norton. I
tried Windows Disk Scan and it also failed the same point, and downloaded
Western Digital Diagnostics for DOS floppy. When I tried to run it, the
software said the drive had fatal errors and they couldn't be fixed.
After
all this, I now have boot-time scan early in Windows boot for this drive
that starts and if let run it locks the system at that point with the
only
alternative a Reset to reboot and hit key at the boot scan to cancel it
so
Windows will boot. Every time I do restart, the system tries to run this
boot-time scan again and has to be canceled to get Windows to open again.
I've been looking everywhere in Windows, but can't find way to clear the
requirement to run this scan, and can't unplug the drive till the data
has
been backed up onto external hard-drive I expect to come in next week.
Where does Windows hide the setting for scheduled scans?
Herb


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