Damn NT and check disk

[{PMS}fishy]

How do I disable check disk from running on startup on my windows 2000 computer. It says that drive h: needs to be checked every time I start up. It comes up with errors every time and cannot complete. It will also not let me defrag beacause check disk is alwalys scheduled to run.

[redduc900]

You can disable chkdsk from running at startup by editing the BootExecute Multi-String under the following Registry key...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SYSTEM | CurrentControlSet | Control | Session Manager

The default value of BootExecute is...

autocheck autochk *

If the Value Data is different than the default...right-click "BootExecute" in the RH pane, and select "Modify" | Change the Value accordingly (back to it's default). ;)

[{PMS}fishy]

Well its already set to what you say it should be. But it still continues to run check disk and still will not let me defragment.

[redduc900]

You could give this a try...

Under the same Registry key, modify the value of BootExecute to:

autocheck autochk /k:h *...The /k parameter will exclude the h: volume from being checked for the presence of a dirty bit.
;)

[{PMS}fishy]

Ok Ill try that next time. For some reason check disk finally finished with no errors. So Im all set for now.