Saturday, May 14, 2011

Tips to Manage Check at Boot Time Using chkntfs

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Windows 7 users can do a check disk at the time of booting the computer system by using the chkntfs command. This becomes necessary when your machine is shutdown not in the appropriate manner and your disk is checked for errors when you start the machine the next time by the Windows checkdisk.

Note that when a non-removable disk is accessed in Windows, its dirty flag gets turned on in the Registry. The dirty flag gets turned off with Windows being shutdown properly. At the boot time if the dirty flag is found turned on by Windows, the checkdisk process for the disk starts automatically. The chkntfs command enables you to manage the dirty flag property.

• Step 1: At the command prompt, you can give the command “chkntfs X:”, where “X:” is actually the drive letter that checks for the dirty flag.

• Step 2: Now identify the AUTOCHK timer countdown that is visible at the Windows boot up when checking any disk for errors by typing the command “chkntfs /T”. The default time is 10 seconds.

• Step 3: You will be able to change the AUTOCHK timer countdown that is visible at Windows boot up by typing the command line “chkntfs /T:time”; here time is displayed in seconds. The default time is 10 seconds.

• Step 4: You may also schedule a drive to be checked at the next reboot. The command line in this case should be “chkntfs /C X:”; here “X:” is the drive letter of the drive that you want to schedule for checking.

• Step 5: For restoring all settings to default, the command line is “chkntfs /D”.

If you are still facing problems in check management at boot time, contact a Windows repair service for remote PC support.

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