Error Checking

[Trent]

After installing SP 2 for xp, I now get an error checking on my partition and my second harddrive with every bootup, Now I cant really move everything off these 2 drives to format them because I have no space to put these things and would need prolly 100 cds to burn everything off and I dont really want to wipe winodws again as I just did 3 days before sp2 came out. So Im looking for ideas on how to stop it from error checking every boot or anything. And I cant run any defrag or anything on the partition or the drive because it insists that it is scheduled to be error checked.

[redduc900]

Check under the following Key in the Registry (Start | Run | Type regedit and click OK), and make sure the BootExecute Value name has a Value data of...autocheck autochk*

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SYSTEM | CurrentControlSet | Control | Session Manager

The binary Value name in the RH pane will be "BootExecute" (without the quotes). Right-click the "BootExecute" binary name and select "Modify" (if the value is something other than autocheck autochk*). Type in the correct value as I've shown it below. Under the "Value" column, it should look like this...

autocheck autochk*
You may also need to check the following Registry Keys...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SOFTWARE | Microsoft | Windows NT | CurrentVersion | Winlogon

Add or modify the following Value name...
SFCScan=DWORD Value data of 0

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SYSTEM | CurrentControlSet | Control | Session Manager

Add or modify the following Value name...
AutoChkTimeOut=DWORD Value data of 0

The following MSKB article may also apply to your situation...

Chkdsk Runs Each Time That You Start Your Computer (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q316/5/06.asp&NoWebContent=1)