Cant stop vista running chkdsk Vista Bugs and Problems Discuss Cant stop vista running chkdsk in the Windows Vista forums; I told vista to run a chkdsk on my next reboot... so it did and all was good... but it wont stop it!! everytime i start vista it runs the ...

[Seansmit17]

I told vista to run a chkdsk on my next reboot... so it did and all was good... but it wont stop it!! everytime i start vista it runs the chkdsk so i cant get into vista!!!! it starts up.. scans.. restarts.. scans.. restarts.. scans.. if i left it it would just keep going and going and going and going... what dose it think it is? energizer battery's!!?!

How can i stop it from doing this??

P.S. I can get into safe mode ok (I think...)

[Znod]

My generic answer to things I don't understand, but want to fix, is to reinstall Vista from within assuming that you are using a version that allows "upgrades." Crabby probably has a better idea.

[Seansmit17]

lol ok...

Im guessing the fix for this (if there is one!) would be the same in xp as it is in vista... but not 100% sure on that one

[Davehc]

First click Start> Run> bring up a command prompt by typing in "CMD" and type " fsutil dirty query d: ". This queries the drive, and more than likely it will tell you that it is dirty. Next, type "CHKNTFS /X D:". 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.

Once Windows has fully loaded, bring up another CMD prompt and type and now you want to do a Chkdsk manually by typing "Chkdsk /f /r d:". This should take you through 5 stages of the scan and will unset that dirty bit. Finally, type "fsutil dirty query d:" and Windows will confirm that the dirty bit is not set on that drive.

[Snuffy]

If Vista is not on the HD in question.(since you dual boot) .. remove it-the HD... then boot. Vista or XP will continue to load. (That should stop the chkdsk..) then you can hook the HD back up.

[JoshW02@hotmail.co.uk]

What about reasking it to run check disk, let it do it, reboot and see what happends?

[Seansmit17]

Cant ask it to do anything... this drive has xp and vista on it, xp i could get into but vista just ran chkdsk on every boot!!!
But thanks to davehc ive got it sorted

Thanks

[ptmcn]

Originally Posted by Davehc

First click Start> Run> bring up a command prompt by typing in "CMD" and type " fsutil dirty query d: ". This queries the drive, and more than likely it will tell you that it is dirty. Next, type "CHKNTFS /X D:". 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.

Once Windows has fully loaded, bring up another CMD prompt and type and now you want to do a Chkdsk manually by typing "Chkdsk /f /r d:". This should take you through 5 stages of the scan and will unset that dirty bit. Finally, type "fsutil dirty query d:" and Windows will confirm that the dirty bit is not set on that drive.

Hi Dave....I do exactly as you say but when I do the second part it runs through stage 1 then says windows done with disk and starts Vista...any ideas?


ptmcn

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[Znod]

You might start up with your Vista disk and then repair start up.