Disabling Scandisk At Startup

[Ebisoba]

It's Win2k. I remember there's an registry edit. Can someone refresh my memory? Thanks.

[OuTpaTienT]

Are your drives NTFS? I believe you could use the command CHKNTFS with the switch /X

Curious as to why you would want to do this. It's totally unnecessary. With NTFS drives Scandisk/Chkdisk will ONLY run if there are errors on the drive. And if there are errors, then you need to fix them. As long as your drives remain error free then you'll never see Scandisk run.


Anyways....here:

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C:\>chkntfs /?
Displays or modifies the checking of disk at boot time.

CHKNTFS volume [...]
CHKNTFS /D
CHKNTFS /T[:time]
CHKNTFS /X volume [...]
CHKNTFS /C volume [...]

volume - Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon), mount point, or volume name.
/D - Restores the machine to the default behavior; all drives are checked at boot time and chkdsk is run on those that are dirty.
/T:time - Changes the AUTOCHK initiation count down time to the specified amount of time in seconds. If time is not specified, displays the current setting.
/X - Excludes a drive from the default boot-time check. Excluded drives are not accumulated between command invocations.
/C - Schedules a drive to be checked at boot time; chkdsk will run if the drive is dirty.
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[paul9]

start, run, msconfig ,advanced, disable scandisk on bad shutdown. that's how to go about it on microsoft's toy operating systems. don't know if 2k has msconfig, but it's worth a try.

[sixf00t4]

it doesnt

[Ebisoba]

It's FAT32. Strange that it still runs after I ran a Scandisk within the OS. Had to run it at startup to get rid of it. Curious is there an command for FAT32?

[JJ5]

You can copy msconfig from xp to 2k.

[OuTpaTienT]

You can copy msconfig from 98 to 2k as well. They both work.