Removing the chkdsk at boot flag in XP?

Hey guys

I can't defrag my hard drive on my laptop coz every time it says i have a scheduled checkdisk on next boot ..... well i went through that already (4.5 hours later) and it still is saying this. How do i remove the flag?

Thanks

 

What happens when you reboot? Does it run chkdsk?

If not, goto a command prompt and run chkdsk /F and answer affirmative to the prompt.

Reboot and let chkdsk run.

Defrag.

 

Yes it does run, hence the couple of hours wait. It runs, get into windows and it says the flag is still set. I restart and cancel it as it runs, i get into windows, the flag is still set. I tell checkdisk to do something, it asks to reboot i say yes (and vice versa) and can't get rid of it.

Defrag indeed.

 

Chkdsk should not take any more then a few minutes or so. Certainly NOT hours. Sounds like you have some corruption or something somewhere....

 

few minutes? to do all 5 pass types? Are you sure? This is the same as a thorough scandisk

 

Go into regedit...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\

Now on the right look for ---> BootExecute

Now double click that and make sure it just has:

and nothing else... I had this problem too, CHKDSK every startup... and doing that, removed it.

 

cheers mate, fixed my problem. awesome