| Author | Message | ||
     Jim Padgett |
If windows thinks you have shutdown improperly and a drive may have bad sectors, it runs scandisk with a full surface scan on the next startup. Is this 'bad disk' information stored on a hard disk? If so where? | ||
| Anonymous |
The following registry key shoud do it [HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem] Name: DisableScandiskOnBoot Type: REG_BINARY (Binary Value) Value: 01 Set the value to 01 to bypass the scandisk. | ||
| Anonymous |
That does not answer the question. | ||
| Mike Montgomery (Mikem22) |
The $VOLUME entry contains the volume name, serial number and the 'dirty' bit. Mike | ||
| Philip Wehrman (Philw) |
What flag(s) does WinXP use to trigger CHKDSK on startup after a bad shutdown? Registry, HD or both? I have XPPro-SP2 installed on 80GB FAT32 drive with one partition. System froze so had to reset. On reboot, XP wanted to run CHKDSK. A prior thread mentioned $VOLUME but I don't think that applies to FAT32, or if so then don't know what it means. I want to attempt disk cleanup myself and not just turn-off CHKDSK via the registry. Any help or info would be appreciated. | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
The "dirty" bit of FAT32 can be found at offset 7 within the file allocation table. Try setting the entire byte to $FF. | ||
| Philip Wehrman (Philw) |
Thank you very much for the reply. I had another lockup this morning and saw that the second FAT entry was FF FF FF 7F where in the past it was FF FF FF FF. Great product, thanks again. |