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WinXP skipping Scandisk after freeze/incorrect shutdown

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theNEOone

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I just formatted my comp and reinstalled all my proggies. A number of times I've had some drivers or programs screw up and cause the system to hang. If I remember correctly, Windows skipped the scandisk check on every single reboot. What's going on here?
 
If its formated as NTFS, you rarely see the scandisk thing. Only if you use fat32 partitions do you sometimes see it check them. Its due to the superior error correction abilities of NTFS.
 


<< If its formated as NTFS, you rarely see the scandisk thing. Only if you use fat32 partitions do you sometimes see it check them. Its due to the superior error correction abilities of NTFS. >>


Actually, it's due to the journalling done by NTFS.

As long as the drivers and hardware caches play by some simple rules, NTFS should never be in an incosistent state.
 


<< I just formatted my comp and reinstalled all my proggies. A number of times I've had some drivers or programs screw up and cause the system to hang. If I remember correctly, Windows skipped the scandisk check on every single reboot. What's going on here? >>



Either your computer wasn't really frozen or you use some really crappy software/drivers because bringing down an XP system is very hard
 
That is normal for XP if you are in NTFS. CHKDSK is only invoked when the NTFS journal finds lost chains or clusters that need attention. Look at it as a bennie!
 
it's the NTFS system! i had it in fat32 before. thx =]



<< Either your computer wasn't really frozen or you use some really crappy software/drivers because bringing down an XP system is very hard >>


actually, sometime XP freezes simply when I change users. But it's always the same situation: I'm in my gaming 'user' and I switch over to my normal 'user' to check mail, etc. I logout of this account to continue gaming, and XP hangs...
 


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<< If its formated as NTFS, you rarely see the scandisk thing. Only if you use fat32 partitions do you sometimes see it check them. Its due to the superior error correction abilities of NTFS. >>


Actually, it's due to the journalling done by NTFS.

As long as the drivers and hardware caches play by some simple rules, NTFS should never be in an incosistent state. >>



Ah, I knew that...I just had a brain freeze when I posted 🙂 Thanks for reminding me though. Journalling could fall under superior error correction abilities though 😉
 
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