How to Cancel Chkdsk at Boot for all drives Windows 10

Hi folks, you know the drill, you hard boot a handful of times to sort something out and BAM windows goes UH OH TIME TO RUN CHKDSK.
Is there any way of stopping it from doing this on all drives?

Windows 10 Pro, 6 hard drives. So the registry fix for one drive won't work here, it will just do so for the other 5 drives.

Which brings up another question for me, why does it do this forever anyway? If I boot this computer successfully another 10 times, shouldn't windows realize something else was going on? Why does it need to insist on this forever?

EdTittel said:

See this TF thread: CHKDSK initiated every time I start Win7 on my dual boot PC. If that doesn't help, see this article off-site: How to Stop Check Disk (Chkdsk) From Running at Startup | Password Recovery.
HTH: I can see where it would get annoying over time (like, the second time!)
--Ed--

Brink has a thread on this that is specific to Windows 10.
Cancel a Scheduled Chkdsk at Boot in Windows 10

But if i'm reading that thread correctly, you can only cancel the scan on one drive at a time.
There's 6 drives on this computer, so that wouldn't work.

If the drive file system is flagged as dirty it will trigger an automatic chkdsk.
This can be cancelled.
Run overnight and possibly into the next day chkdsk /b /v on all drives < 2 TB

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...ommands/chkdsk

Open administrative command prompt and type or copy and paste:
chkdsk /b /v
This may take hours to run so plan to run overnight.
Run on all drives using the syntax: chkdsk /b /v C: or chkdsk /b /v D: changing the drive letter to the applicable drive.

C:\Windows\system32>chkdsk /b /v
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)

Type: Y
reboot


Use the information in this link to find the chkdsk report in the event viewer.
Copy and paste into notepad > save to desktop > post into the thread using one drive or drop box share link:
Read Chkdsk Log in Event Viewer in Windows 10 Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials
Read Chkdsk Log in Event Viewer in Windows 10

zbook, thanks for the response, but i'm not interested in having to scan drives at all.
this occurred because I hard booted my computer. this has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the other 5 drives, and in the year 2020 it is mind boggling that windows still continues to bully this situation.
I hard booted because the mouse went bad, and it took several reboots to determine if it was usb 2.0 port, or usb 3.0 port, or perhaps the entire header, or perhaps the keyboard that the mouse is plugged into.
once I determined it was the mouse, I swapped it out and all is well now. there is simply no justification for me to risk drive scans over this. i've read horror stories over the years of windows making changes,moving folders, etc etc.
i'll leave this computer on till it dies before i'll scan all the drives.
I was hoping for a simpler and more elegant solution, since this is not nearly the first time i've ever ran into this over the years.

In Ten Forums there are many threads related to:
a) corruption of the drive file system
b) corruption of the operating system
c) corruption of the registry
d) malware
e) ransomware
f) failure to boot
g) unexpected drive failure
h) data recovery

All of these threads could potentially be fixed by restoring backup images.

The chkdsk problem that you encountered was related to instability.
Windows detected instability in the volume and triggered steps to prevent data loss.

See this link:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...s/fsutil-dirty

Remarks

A volume's dirty bit indicates that the file system may be in an inconsistent state. The dirty bit can be set because:

The volume is online and it has outstanding changes.

Changes were made to the volume and the computer was shut down before the changes were committed to the disk.

Corruption was detected on the volume.

If the dirty bit is set when the computer restarts, chkdsk runs to verify the file system integrity and to attempt to fix any issues with the volume.


Consider making free backup images:
(Acronis, Aoemi, EaseUS, Macrium, Paragon, etc.)

Macrium is widely used in Ten Forums:
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