Stop auto Disk checking during windows startup

Due to improper shutdown, following message may appear on blue screen while starting up your windows xp system

” Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue. To skip disk checking, press any key within 10 seconds(s). ”

If you press any key while it counts 10 seconds, it would stop running CHKDSK but it will ask you again when you restart the system . If you let it to complete, it will check hard disk for errors and try to correct them. But sometimes even after letting CHKDSK to complete, it would still repeat at every boot.

By using chkntfs command, you can exclude the drives from checking.

Go to start–> RUN–>type cmd and press enter

• Type chkntfs /x c: and press enter
• To exclude other drives, Use the same command by replacing C: with drive letter ( D: , E: ….)
• Restart the PC

Disable chkdsk using registry editor

There is a way to disable startup CHKDSK permanently by editing registry. But it’s not recommended to switch off Disk checking. If you want you can follow the steps given below

Go to start–>RUN–>type regedit and press enter

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\

• In the right pane double click on BootExecute and enter the following in value data Box.

autocheck autochk /k:c *

• Click OK , close regedit and restart the PC.