How to disable Check Disk (chkdsk) at startup in Vista

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Chkdsk (Chkdsk.exe) is a command-line tool that checks volumes for problems. The tool then tries to repair any that it finds. For example, Chkdsk can repair problems related to bad sectors, lost clusters, cross-linked files, and directory errors. For some users this is annoying so if you want to disable follow this procedure.

To disable automatic disk checking at Windows startup through registry, go to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager

In the right hand pane, double click BootExecute.

The default value of the key is autocheck autochk *

* means every drive is checked for consistency. Just add /K:C at the end before *. /K switch will disable autocheck on C: drive at Windows startup. So the final value should look like this:

autocheck autochk /k:C *

autocheck-registry.png

If you want to add more drives, the key should look like this: (disabling C and D drives)

autocheck autochk /k:C /k:D *

If you want to restore everything to default, just replace the key with the default one i.e.,

autocheck autochk *

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Is there a way to disable it before windows starts? (I can t open windows because checkdisk stops around 60 percent and I can t open my computer)

Comment by Jam on November 12, 2008 @ 10:17 pm

thanks,it works for me

Comment by mohammad on December 11, 2008 @ 11:46 am

Thanks..

Comment by Jay on December 13, 2008 @ 1:20 pm

thanks it worked

Comment by darryl on April 19, 2009 @ 12:19 am

This thing was really drove me crazy!!!! finally after looking your advice it stopped!!!thank tou so much…it helped me a lot!

Comment by nikos athanas on November 7, 2009 @ 5:35 pm

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