Running Hard Drive Error-Checking

[Synomenon]

Ok. I have two partitions on my hard drive: C and D. I'm running Windows XP Pro. SP2. When go to run error-checking for C it tells me that it has to do it the next time I restart or startup my PC. However, for D it just does it from within Windows. Is there any way I can do error-checking for D at restart as well? I want Windows to do the error-checking for both partitions at restart, C then D. Thanks for any help.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: IsLNdbOi
Ok. I have two partitions on my hard drive: C and D. I'm running Windows XP Pro. SP2. When go to run error-checking for C it tells me that it has to do it the next time I restart or startup my PC. However, for D it just does it from within Windows. Is there any way I can do error-checking for D at restart as well? I want Windows to do the error-checking for both partitions at restart, C then D. Thanks for any help.

Chkdsk will check the partition immediately unless it can't lock it, at which point it must do it at the next reboot. Any reason you want to force this to happen, everything seems to be working properly from your description....

 

[Synomenon]

Yeah, I would like the disk error-checking for both my C and D partitions to be done at the next reboot. I usuall leave my PC when it's error-checking the disks and I have to come back after so many minutes just 'cause I have to restart my PC for the C partition to be error-checked, after Windows has finished error-checking the D partition.

So it's more of a convenience thing for me if I can just force both C and D to be error-checked at the next restart.