was trying to find how to prevent chkdsk from startup -by tweaking in registry.. shouldnt it say autocheck autochk * /r\DosDevice\C ? when i went to the key it only said autocheck autochk * -so it shouldnt run at startup but it still does.
why i want to disable is, last month, it took nearly 10 hours to complete- i was occupied before i could hit "any" key to stop it in time
If it takes 10 hours, you have to investigate underlying reason.was trying to find how to prevent chkdsk from startup -by tweaking in registry.. shouldnt it say autocheck autochk * /r\DosDevice\C ? when i went to the key it only said autocheck autochk * -so it shouldnt run at startup but it still does.
why i want to disable is, last month, it took nearly 10 hours to complete
The last disk I checked that took that long did so for a very good reason - I had dropped this external 1TB HDD while it was running and the heads made a loud 'ting' as they hit the platter. It's retrying reads for the bad blocks that takes all that time.
Chkdsk is trying to tell you something. Rather than disabling the checks, you should investigate why this disk is apparently failing.
If chkdsk run its because the disk has its dirty bit set and it wont unset until its ran if you disable it will just find dirty bit set and start it again
The last person I helped with this sort of problem found the disk was failing.
When you have the chance, check its SMART params, run a surface test etc.
how can this pc have memory issues when it is still fairly new...not even 2 years old.. well ill run a mem diag test later today and see results.
Next chance you have, run chkdsk C: /scan in an admin command prompt. Copy and paste what this come out with into this thread.
hi, yesterday i ran scan health, nothing found. just now ran memory diagnostics, nothing found. -which is good news.
LaunchType Manual
CompletionType Pass
MemorySize 3996
TestType 10
TestDuration 1228
TestCount 12
NumPagesTested 1012159
NumPagesUnTested 1970
NumBadPages 0
T1NumBadPages 0
T2NumBadPages 0
T3NumBadPages 0
T4NumBadPages 0
T5NumBadPages 0
T6NumBadPages 0
T7NumBadPages 0
T8NumBadPages 0
T9NumBadPages 0
T10NumBadPages 0
T11NumBadPages 0
T12NumBadPages 0
T13NumBadPages 0
T14NumBadPages 0
T15NumBadPages 0
T16NumBadPages 0
Great however that is not how you test a hard disk that just tests the memory which is not your problem.
You need to follow the advice given on testing the actual hard drive properly.
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