how to disable scan disk?

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Hi newsgroup,
How do I diasble scandisk in XP?
Can it be disabled?

Thanks.

 

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Good news: There is no scandisk in Windows XP, and it's successor (known as
Disk Error Checking or chkdsk) is run manually.

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Ted Zieglar
"You can do it if you try."

"Fridhelm Neubauer" <frieneubaerr@freenet.de> wrote in message
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> Hi newsgroup,
> How do I diasble scandisk in XP?
> Can it be disabled?
>
> Thanks.

 

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"Ted Zieglar" <teddyz@notmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Good news: There is no scandisk in Windows XP, and it's successor (known
> as
> Disk Error Checking or chkdsk) is run manually.

Thanks, then how do you disable chkdsk?

 

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"Ted Zieglar" <teddyz@notmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Chkdsk is invoked manually, i.e., you have to click on the button to start
> it. If you don't want it, don't use it.
Then why does it start at every boot?

 

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"Fridhelm Neubauer" <frieneubaerr@freenet.de> wrote in message
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>
> "Ted Zieglar" <teddyz@notmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:%23v8A52JuFHA.3452@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> Chkdsk is invoked manually, i.e., you have to click on the button to
>> start
>> it. If you don't want it, don't use it.
> Then why does it start at every boot?

Does it find any errors? This is often a sign of a failing hard drive.

Kerry

 

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Fridhelm Neubauer wrote:
> Hi newsgroup,
> How do I diasble scandisk in XP?
> Can it be disabled?
>
> Thanks.

Some good info here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_c.htm
Scroll down to check disk


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Mike Pawlak