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Prevent CHKDSK From Running at Boot

By Alan McCloskey on October 25, 2007

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Sometimes you need to check the health of your hard drives by running a diagnostic on them, but
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you cannot fix any problems because “the system cannot get exclusive access to the drive”. This
problem occurs more frequently on the drive in which Windows is installed. Here’s how to prevent
CHKDSK from running at boot. Tesoro Tizona Mechanical
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So, you schedule CHKDSK to run before boot (or sometimes Windows will schedule it), and it either
takes friggin’ forever, or tries to run a CHKDSK every time you boot! The problem is that a flag has
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been set on your drive and isn’t being cleared after a successful run. There is a simple procedure to September 19, 2014
correct this problem, but you have to go through a few screens to do it.

1. Click the Start Button. From the Start menu click Run Tesoro Shrike Gaming Mouse
2. In the Run dialogue box type: cmd. The command prompt window will now open Released

3. In the command prompt window type: fsutil dirty query c: (If you have a dual boot system
then replace the C: drive letter with the relevant drive letter you have been having problems
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with). Press Enter.
4. The response from the file system utility will probably be that the disk is ‘dirty’
5. Now type: CHKNTFS /X C: into the command prompt windows and press Enter. (If you
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have a dual boot system then replace the C: drive letter with the relevant drive letter you
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have been having problems with). The X parameter, in this case, tells windows not to check
the disk in question
6. Re-boot your PC. You should now find that CHKDSK does not run on the selected drive How to Disable Windows 8
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7. Once you have confirmed that CHKDSK does not run and your PC has fully booted click 10 Benefits of Video Games

Start>Run again and type cmd. How to use an Xbox Controller as a USB PC
8. In the command window now type: chkdsk /f /r c: and press Enter. Again replace the C: (If Gamepad
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9. After the drive has been scanned type: fsutil dirty query c: and press Enter How to fix VLC’s “Font Cache is Being…
10. Windows should now confirm that the ‘dirty bit’ has been disabled
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10 COMMENTS

ventoz
August 10, 2014 at 7:37 pm

Nailed it! Thank you for the guide!

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ashraf
July 17, 2013 at 12:59 am

in step-8, after running command, it gives error access denied. Please advise.

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