Where does xp hide the chkdisk switch?

[dawks]

Kind of an odd, and un-important question, but here it is non-the-less.

Where does XP hide the 'chkdisk will occur upon reboot'. I set it, but I don't want to reboot for a while, and while its set, I cannot defrag. And I'd like to defrag.......

I checked C:\ but theres nothing special there. just the regular:

autoexec.bat - empty
boot.ini - standard info
config.sys - empty
io.sys - empty
msdos.sys - empty
ntdetect.com - normal
ntldr - normal

I figure the setting can't be very deep. I doubt its in the registry, since the chkdisk happens so early in the boot process..

Any ideas?

 

[Unforgiven]

Stop CHKDSK from running at boot time.


1.Edit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager
2.Change the BootExecute entry from:

autocheck autochk * /.........

To:

autocheck autochk *

If you have scheduled CHKDSK for multiple volumes, there will be an autocheck entry for each volume. Delete the string from the BootExecute registry value for each volume you do not want checked.

 

[LS]

chkntfs /d will also work

 

[dawks]

Originally posted by: plankton
Stop CHKDSK from running at boot time.


1.Edit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager
2.Change the BootExecute entry from:

autocheck autochk * /.........

To:

autocheck autochk *

If you have scheduled CHKDSK for multiple volumes, there will be an autocheck entry for each volume. Delete the string from the BootExecute registry value for each volume you do not want checked.

The key is: AUTONTFS C: PAGE=KEEP DIRS=NONE MFT=MIN autocheck autochk *
currently, but chkdisk is still scheduled.. interesting.

Edit: deleting the key has no effect. unless i need to reboot to see the effect.. lol