How do you cancel a boot-time disk scan in WindowsXP Home by Cyborg-HAF
My oldest hard-drive is an EIDE Western Digital 120-JB drive that is onit's last legs but still has data to big to back up on burned media. I
don't have enough space left on my other SATA drives to back everything up
on another drive. I tried to run a Norton Utilities Disk Doctor scan on it
and it fails at 56% of the first part of the scan and crashes Norton. I
tried Windows Disk Scan and it also failed the same point, and downloaded
Western Digital Diagnostics for DOS floppy. When I tried to run it, the
software said the drive had fatal errors and they couldn't be fixed. After
all this, I now have boot-time scan early in Windows boot for this drive
that starts and if let run it locks the system at that point with the only
alternative a Reset to reboot and hit key at the boot scan to cancel it so
Windows will boot. Every time I do restart, the system tries to run this
boot-time scan again and has to be canceled to get Windows to open again.
I've been looking everywhere in Windows, but can't find way to clear the
requirement to run this scan, and can't unplug the drive till the data has
been backed up onto external hard-drive I expect to come in next week.
Where does Windows hide the setting for scheduled scans?
Herb
I assume that you want to bypass Windows chkdsk function at startup. If so, do
this:
Open a Command Prompt window and enter "fsutil dirty query c:" without the
quotes. (If you're problem is not the c drive, replace c: accordingly.)
It should reply that the volume is dirty.
If so, now enter "chkntfs /x c:" w/o quotes. (If you're problem is not the c
drive, replace c: accordingly.)
The X tells Windows to NOT check that particular drive on the next reboot. At
this time, manually reboot your computer, it should not do a Chkdsk and take you
directly to Windows.
"Cyborg-HAF" <cyborg_haf@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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My oldest hard-drive is an EIDE Western Digital 120-JB drive that is on
it's last legs but still has data to big to back up on burned media. I don't
have enough space left on my other SATA drives to back everything up on
another drive. I tried to run a Norton Utilities Disk Doctor scan on it and
it fails at 56% of the first part of the scan and crashes Norton. I tried
Windows Disk Scan and it also failed the same point, and downloaded Western
Digital Diagnostics for DOS floppy. When I tried to run it, the software said
the drive had fatal errors and they couldn't be fixed. After all this, I now
have boot-time scan early in Windows boot for this drive that starts and if
let run it locks the system at that point with the only alternative a Reset to
reboot and hit key at the boot scan to cancel it so Windows will boot. Every
time I do restart, the system tries to run this boot-time scan again and has
to be canceled to get Windows to open again. I've been looking everywhere in
Windows, but can't find way to clear the requirement to run this scan, and
can't unplug the drive till the data has been backed up onto external
hard-drive I expect to come in next week. Where does Windows hide the setting
for scheduled scans?
Herb
Oops typo......."you're problem" should be "your problem" in two places.
My bad.
"David Webb" <dwebb211@earthling.net> wrote in message
news:e1jqYNQpKHA.4836@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
I assume that you want to bypass Windows chkdsk function at startup. If so, do
this:
Open a Command Prompt window and enter "fsutil dirty query c:" without the
quotes. (If you're problem is not the c drive, replace c: accordingly.)
It should reply that the volume is dirty.
If so, now enter "chkntfs /x c:" w/o quotes. (If you're problem is not the c
drive, replace c: accordingly.)
The X tells Windows to NOT check that particular drive on the next reboot. At
this time, manually reboot your computer, it should not do a Chkdsk and take
you directly to Windows.
"Cyborg-HAF" <cyborg_haf@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:gMmdnYFARcLpKvTWnZ2dnUVZ_jCdnZ2d@giganews.com...
My oldest hard-drive is an EIDE Western Digital 120-JB drive that is on
it's last legs but still has data to big to back up on burned media. I don't
have enough space left on my other SATA drives to back everything up on
another drive. I tried to run a Norton Utilities Disk Doctor scan on it and
it fails at 56% of the first part of the scan and crashes Norton. I tried
Windows Disk Scan and it also failed the same point, and downloaded Western
Digital Diagnostics for DOS floppy. When I tried to run it, the software
said the drive had fatal errors and they couldn't be fixed. After all this,
I now have boot-time scan early in Windows boot for this drive that starts
and if let run it locks the system at that point with the only alternative a
Reset to reboot and hit key at the boot scan to cancel it so Windows will
boot. Every time I do restart, the system tries to run this boot-time scan
again and has to be canceled to get Windows to open again. I've been looking
everywhere in Windows, but can't find way to clear the requirement to run
this scan, and can't unplug the drive till the data has been backed up onto
external hard-drive I expect to come in next week. Where does Windows hide
the setting for scheduled scans?
Herb
Why not copy the files/data to another IDE hd,use xps XCOPY,its already
installed with the OS.A IDE hd,WDC,or Seagate only runs about 35.00
"Cyborg-HAF" wrote:
My oldest hard-drive is an EIDE Western Digital 120-JB drive that is on
it's last legs but still has data to big to back up on burned media. I
don't have enough space left on my other SATA drives to back everything up
on another drive. I tried to run a Norton Utilities Disk Doctor scan on it
and it fails at 56% of the first part of the scan and crashes Norton. I
tried Windows Disk Scan and it also failed the same point, and downloaded
Western Digital Diagnostics for DOS floppy. When I tried to run it, the
software said the drive had fatal errors and they couldn't be fixed. After
all this, I now have boot-time scan early in Windows boot for this drive
that starts and if let run it locks the system at that point with the only
alternative a Reset to reboot and hit key at the boot scan to cancel it so
Windows will boot. Every time I do restart, the system tries to run this
boot-time scan again and has to be canceled to get Windows to open again.
I've been looking everywhere in Windows, but can't find way to clear the
requirement to run this scan, and can't unplug the drive till the data has
been backed up onto external hard-drive I expect to come in next week.
Where does Windows hide the setting for scheduled scans?
Herb
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The bad drive is just data storage drive. I don't have enough drive
space to back it all up, and don't have spare drive for few days yet to give
me back up space. The drive is already starting to corrupt data. This boot
problem is driving me nuts everytime I restart my system, and have to sit
there ready to hit key to keep it from running the scan and hanging. I
have no interest in another EIDE hard drive, and will junk this drive along
with the first that had hard head crashes that trashed it.
Herb
"Andrew E." <eckrichco@msn.com> wrote in message
news:BC4A0094-68CE-44C5-9E97-453ABD0ABCF0@microsoft.com...
Why not copy the files/data to another IDE hd,use xps XCOPY,its already
installed with the OS.A IDE hd,WDC,or Seagate only runs about 35.00
"Cyborg-HAF" wrote:
My oldest hard-drive is an EIDE Western Digital 120-JB drive that is
on
it's last legs but still has data to big to back up on burned media. I
don't have enough space left on my other SATA drives to back everything
up
on another drive. I tried to run a Norton Utilities Disk Doctor scan on
it
and it fails at 56% of the first part of the scan and crashes Norton. I
tried Windows Disk Scan and it also failed the same point, and downloaded
Western Digital Diagnostics for DOS floppy. When I tried to run it, the
software said the drive had fatal errors and they couldn't be fixed.
After
all this, I now have boot-time scan early in Windows boot for this drive
that starts and if let run it locks the system at that point with the
only
alternative a Reset to reboot and hit key at the boot scan to cancel it
so
Windows will boot. Every time I do restart, the system tries to run this
boot-time scan again and has to be canceled to get Windows to open again.
I've been looking everywhere in Windows, but can't find way to clear the
requirement to run this scan, and can't unplug the drive till the data
has
been backed up onto external hard-drive I expect to come in next week.
Where does Windows hide the setting for scheduled scans?
Herb
.
Cyborg-HAF wrote on 02/03/2010 12:50 ET :
My oldest hard-drive is an EIDE Western Digital 120-JB drive that is onThank you for this information IDK what my problem is but when I try to do
it's last legs but still has data to big to back up on burned media. I
don't have enough space left on my other SATA drives to back everything up
on another drive. I tried to run a Norton Utilities Disk Doctor scan on it
and it fails at 56% of the first part of the scan and crashes Norton. I
tried Windows Disk Scan and it also failed the same point, and downloaded
Western Digital Diagnostics for DOS floppy. When I tried to run it, the
software said the drive had fatal errors and they couldn't be fixed. After
all this, I now have boot-time scan early in Windows boot for this drive
that starts and if let run it locks the system at that point with the only
alternative a Reset to reboot and hit key at the boot scan to cancel it so
Windows will boot. Every time I do restart, the system tries to run this
boot-time scan again and has to be canceled to get Windows to open again.
I've been looking everywhere in Windows, but can't find way to clear the
requirement to run this scan, and can't unplug the drive till the data has
been backed up onto external hard-drive I expect to come in next week.
Where does Windows hide the setting for scheduled scans?
Herb
boot scan it says the drive is inaccessible? Or something similar it is only u
for a few seconds but it occurred every time I would boot up. With your comman
i was able to stop it from trying every time I booted up.
Would you have any Idea why this would happen in the first place??
it is an IDE hard drive in a laptop with 30 gigs of storage That's all th
information I know off the top of my head without looking things up if there i
anything else you might need to know ask please
I am sorry for attempting to hijack this post its just that when I searche
Google on how to disable this scan this was the only thing that showed up tha
was relative to what I wanted and it eventually ended up being my answer so
also want to thank you for the information and the OP for making this topic fo
me to find and sole my problem.
I have one more question is there a way to do this sort of scan a different wa
such as a scan that runs while I am logged into windows like a defrag o
something?? I believe I have used one before but I don't remember what it i
except for the fact it was not a Microsoft program it may not even of been fre
(sadly I lost it during a format and forgot to back it up) So for the sake o
stopping this long reply THANKS and here is a temporary email address you ca
reach me at that will be active until 03-25-10 pugymavekasosuho@tempomail.fr
beatnik wrote on 02/26/2010 13:29 ET :
Cyborg-HAF wrote on 02/03/2010 12:50 ET :up
My oldest hard-drive is an EIDE Western Digital 120-JB drive that is on
it's last legs but still has data to big to back up on burned media. I
don't have enough space left on my other SATA drives to back everything up
on another drive. I tried to run a Norton Utilities Disk Doctor scan on it
and it fails at 56% of the first part of the scan and crashes Norton. I
tried Windows Disk Scan and it also failed the same point, and downloaded
Western Digital Diagnostics for DOS floppy. When I tried to run it, the
software said the drive had fatal errors and they couldn't be fixed. After
all this, I now have boot-time scan early in Windows boot for this drive
that starts and if let run it locks the system at that point with the only
alternative a Reset to reboot and hit key at the boot scan to cancel it so
Windows will boot. Every time I do restart, the system tries to run this
boot-time scan again and has to be canceled to get Windows to open again.
I've been looking everywhere in Windows, but can't find way to clear the
requirement to run this scan, and can't unplug the drive till the data has
been backed up onto external hard-drive I expect to come in next week.
Where does Windows hide the setting for scheduled scans?
Herb
Thank you for this information IDK what my problem is but when I try to do a
boot scan it says the drive is inaccessible? Or something similar it is onl
for a few seconds but it occurred every time I would boot up. With youcommand
i was able to stop it from trying every time I booted up.is
Would you have any Idea why this would happen in the first place??
it is an IDE hard drive in a laptop with 30 gigs of storage That's all the
information I know off the top of my head without looking things up if ther
anything else you might need to know ask pleasethat
I am sorry for attempting to hijack this post its just that when I searched
Google on how to disable this scan this was the only thing that showed u
was relative to what I wanted and it eventually ended up being my answer sI
also want to thank you for the information and the OP for making this topifor
me to find and sole my problem.way
I have one more question is there a way to do this sort of scan a differen
such as a scan that runs while I am logged into windows like a defrag orfree
something?? I believe I have used one before but I don't remember what it is
except for the fact it was not a Microsoft program it may not even of bee
(sadly I lost it during a format and forgot to back it up) So for the sakof
stopping this long reply THANKS and here is a temporary email address yocan
reach me at that will be active until 03-25-10pugymavekasosuho@tempomail.fr
IDK why it wasn't on the other post but here is the email I must have forgot
beatnik wrote on 02/26/2010 14:02 ET :
beatnik wrote on 02/26/2010 13:29 ET :it
Cyborg-HAF wrote on 02/03/2010 12:50 ET :
My oldest hard-drive is an EIDE Western Digital 120-JB drive that is on
it's last legs but still has data to big to back up on burned media. I
don't have enough space left on my other SATA drives to back everything up
on another drive. I tried to run a Norton Utilities Disk Doctor scan o
and it fails at 56% of the first part of the scan and crashes Norton. IAfter
tried Windows Disk Scan and it also failed the same point, and downloaded
Western Digital Diagnostics for DOS floppy. When I tried to run it, the
software said the drive had fatal errors and they couldn't be fixed.
all this, I now have boot-time scan early in Windows boot for this drivea
that starts and if let run it locks the system at that point with the only
alternative a Reset to reboot and hit key at the boot scan to cancel it so
Windows will boot. Every time I do restart, the system tries to run this
boot-time scan again and has to be canceled to get Windows to open again.
I've been looking everywhere in Windows, but can't find way to clear the
requirement to run this scan, and can't unplug the drive till the data has
been backed up onto external hard-drive I expect to come in next week.
Where does Windows hide the setting for scheduled scans?
Herb
Thank you for this information IDK what my problem is but when I try to d
boot scan it says the drive is inaccessible? Or something similar it ionly
upthere
for a few seconds but it occurred every time I would boot up. With your
command
i was able to stop it from trying every time I booted up.
Would you have any Idea why this would happen in the first place??
it is an IDE hard drive in a laptop with 30 gigs of storage That's all the
information I know off the top of my head without looking things up i
isthat
anything else you might need to know ask please
I am sorry for attempting to hijack this post its just that when I searched
Google on how to disable this scan this was the only thing that showed u
was relative to what I wanted and it eventually ended up being my answer sI
also want to thank you for the information and the OP for making this topicis
for
me to find and sole my problem.
I have one more question is there a way to do this sort of scan a different
way
such as a scan that runs while I am logged into windows like a defrag or
something?? I believe I have used one before but I don't remember what i
except for the fact it was not a Microsoft program it may not even of beenof
free
(sadly I lost it during a format and forgot to back it up) So for the sak
stopping this long reply THANKS and here is a temporary email address yocan
reach me at that will be active until 03-25-10i see you cant post email address here
IDK why it wasn't on the other post but here is the email I must have forgot
maybe this will work
pugymavekasosuho AT tempomail DOT fr
Thank you!