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Windows XP - Want to turn off automatic scandisk after "incorrect shutdown"

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boomer6447

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Not sure why, but when XP is loading, about 1/2 the time, it wants to run a scandisk. It takes freakin FOREVER...
I want to turn that off, but I couldn't find how...
Any help would be appreciated.....
 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / Microsoft / Dfrg / BootOptimizeFunction
Select Enable from the list on the right.
Right on it and select Modify.
Change the value to Y to enable and N to disable.
Reboot your computer.

[edited for clarity]
 
If I were you I'd address the issue of why you're having this happen instead of just shutting it off. Check for an updated BIOS or drivers for your motherboard/harddrive controllers. It sounds like you have some sort of shutdown/ACPI issue.
 
Just a suggestion if you can afford to reinstall XP - use NTFS file system and you won't see the scandisk forever.
 
I thought about the NTFS change, since I'm using XP Pro and I would like to use the file encryption/protection thingy and it only works if your drive is NTFS. I'm pretty sure I can do this after the install though..without re-installing. I'm pretty sure all my drivers are updated, didn't seem to have trouble during install....I think i'm gonna try the registry hack...Thanks for all the ideas!
 
I wouldn't turn that off. FAT is a flimsy filesystem and can corrupt easily, shutting down incorrectly and not checking for errors will eventually lose you all your data, I guarantee it.

Fix the problem, not the symptom.
 
Is it true that if you set WinXP to use NTFS file system it no longer can be seen by a FAT32 system over your network? If that is true then all computers in your network would have to be installed with NTFS in order to read and access the other computer's hard drives?

:Q
 
The host filesystem has nothing to do with which clients can access it over a network, this has been discussed many times already.
 


<< I think i'm gonna try the registry hack...Thanks for all the ideas! >>


Psychoholic shakes his head in disbelief and notes the date so he can see how much time has elapsed when boomer6447 starts his next topic on lost data on his hard drive.
 


<< Psychoholic shakes his head in disbelief and notes the date so he can see how much time has elapsed when boomer6447 starts his next topic on lost data on his hard drive. >>


LOL, most likely true. 🙂

Just because you CAN disable it doesnt mean you should.

Does anything "out of the ordinary happen" when you choose to shutdown or reboot from Windows?
You know, like ... pc hangs, pc doesnt power itself of, f or pc just reboots when you try to shutdown.

 
<< Psychoholic shakes his head in disbelief and notes the date so he can see how much time has elapsed when boomer6447 starts his next topic on lost data on his hard drive. >>


That cracked me up...thanks for the laugh in an otherwise dreary day. I agree, fixing the symptom is the correct thing to do, but I NEVER have the problem when I shut down correctly. Most of the time it seems to happen when my 14 yr old daughter is finished for the night and I boot up the next day. I have done everything but beat her over the head for not shutting down properly, and she swears she does it right, but I have my doubts....she was the last one on the pc last night and was on it until about 10:30, so when I go home this afternoon, I most likely will see the scandisk message.......Thanks again for all the help.
 



<< I NEVER have the problem when I shut down correctly. Most of the time it seems to happen when my 14 yr old daughter is finished for the night and I boot up the next day. I have done everything but beat her over the head for not shutting down properly, and she swears she does it right, but I have my doubts....she was the last one on the pc last night and was on it until about 10:30, so when I go home this afternoon, I most likely will see the scandisk message.......Thanks again for all the help. >>


Hmm doesn't appear to be a software or a hardware problem😉 Looks like adolescent user error. convert your partitions over to NTFS. It is very good at protecting itself from those types of things. I guess it is somewhat teenager proof. Whatever you do do not turn off chkdsk it runs for a reason😛 Looks like the problem is in your teenager 14.1 software😉
 
NTFS won't help you if you keep pulling the hard disk cache out from under the OS by not shutting it down properly, NTFS' journaling (and journaling in general unless you journal all data which is really slow and ext3 is the only filesytem I know that has that option) only keeps the filesystem in a consistent state not the data. Meaning it'll past a chkdsk fine but all the files may be missing.
 
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