Windows 7 CHKDSK runs every boot-up!

4743hudsonj

You may or may not have seen my previous thread the other day, I now know for certain my HDD is not failing on me. But still CHKDSK runs at every boot to find nothing!

I have ran every diagnostic i can find or think of, and all return not errors or dirty bits.

Querying in the elevated command line confirms no dirty areas.

I looked through regedit and found no entries with a value of anything but 0 that could relate to this.

msconfig also has nothing listed in the start up tab.

I have scoured the tinternet and these forums, nothing. The only thing i found over and over was the solution for this problem, but in xp(solved by un-ticking scandisk in msconfig so this doesn't work) or people just asking to see if they heard of this issue in windows 7 as apparently it was a bug in the early betas and even RC1 that MS supposedly got rid of.

I really cant be bothered to wipe W7 ad start over so close to my upgrade to it so anybody have the remotest craziest idea that might work before i do this?

Thankyou all in advance.
Josh

davb

I suspect you are down to the unusual now you have tried the obvious things. From web posts some solutions to this type of thing have included:
Run a defrag
uninstall / reinstall Antivirus software
memory issues - run memtest
PSU fault

I don't have anything certain, but defrag sounds reasonable, and I did once get a lot of corrupted files on a HDD which was down to a faulty RAM chip.

4743hudsonj

davb wrote: »

I suspect you are down to the unusual now you have tried the obvious things. From web posts some solutions to this type of thing have included:
Run a defrag
uninstall / reinstall Antivirus software
memory issues - run memtest
PSU fault

I don't have anything certain, but defrag sounds reasonable, and I did once get a lot of corrupted files on a HDD which was down to a faulty RAM chip.

I've ran defrags since and now you mentioned it I've ran another. my first was a couple of days ago as part of my routine virus scan file cleanup etc etc. This hasn't changed the issue.

AV sounds odd but ill give it a try, not sure about the psu fault? Cant see how this would effect chkdsk running with absolutely no other issues.

I have tried memtest, nothing out of the ordinary.

Thankyou

gaming_guy

if you have 2 or more ram sticks, have you tried booting the machine with just one plugged in?

4743hudsonj

gaming_guy wrote: »

if you have 2 or more ram sticks, have you tried booting the machine with just one plugged in?

No i havnt because its a vaio laptop that came with 4GB mem and thats its maximum so they didnt bother putting an access panel to it. I would have to dismantle the whole thing which from the polava i had in just replacing the keyboard i dont particularly plan on doing. All the ram seems to work fine though, i think its just the bug from the rc and beta where there was nothing wrong, it just did it anyways.

John_Gray

I'm not quite sure where you are, but if your question is "How do I stop CHKDSK running every time when the PC starts?", have you seen CHKNTFS.EXE: What You Can Use It For ?

4743hudsonj

John_Gray wrote: »

I'm not quite sure where you are, but if your question is "How do I stop CHKDSK running every time when the PC starts?", have you seen CHKNTFS.EXE: What You Can Use It For ?

thats worked a treat!

exactly what i was looking for, just didnt know it was there.

thank you so much, my annoyance is over

dogmaryxx

Avira adds that it should issue a hotfix for the problem this week, although it warns that "many other antivirus products seem to trigger this behaviour occasionally too, as we learned during the investigation of the problem".

Full report http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/353734/windows-7-chkdsk-bug-linked-to-antivirus-software