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Checkdisk On Every Boot

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by saihib

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A friend is running XP Pro on a Dell laptop. Every time he starts or re-boots the machine it makes it to the black XP screen then starts checkdisk. Whether or not he lets the operation complete, or cancels it, the machine runs fine. It's very annoying. Any suggestions as to possible causes?

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by borginva

Have you tried running a SCANDISK and DEFRAG once the machine is booted? Tried any registry fixers (I got some if you need em).
Either the hard drive has corruption issues or the OS does. Best to see what happens after that SCANDISK (full with surface checking) and then a DEFRAG.
Keep me posted (no pun).

by shasca

If you run sfc at the command prompt it gives you several options of SFC, one of which is sfc /scanboot which scans at startup each time. turn off the /scanboot option to stop the cycle

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