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

 Windows Vista
Oct 062008
 

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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  22 Responses to “How to disable Check Disk (chkdsk) at startup in Vista”

  1. Jam says:
    November 12, 2008 at 10:17 pm

    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)

  2. mohammad says:
    December 11, 2008 at 11:46 am

    thanks,it works for me

  3. Jay says:
    December 13, 2008 at 1:20 pm

    Thanks..

  4. darryl says:
    April 19, 2009 at 12:19 am

    thanks it worked

  5. nikos athanas says:
    November 7, 2009 at 5:35 pm

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

  6. seosecret says:
    January 18, 2010 at 12:29 pm

    i’m looking for this info
    thanks :)

  7. Kumar Amit says:
    June 10, 2010 at 5:28 am

    Thanks

    :)

  8. sasanka mahapatra says:
    June 23, 2010 at 2:09 pm

    ooooooooo i did it.all of my problems solved.thank u very much.

  9. joy77division says:
    August 20, 2010 at 4:14 am

    I tried this, but I received an error message stating, “Cannot edit BootExecute. Error writing the value’s new contents.” I am an administrator. I can’t figure out what’s wrong. Could you help me?

  10. Kishore says:
    October 29, 2010 at 5:04 am

    It is owesome, It worked for me all the time. It really works.

  11. Kishore says:
    October 29, 2010 at 5:05 am

    :) \m/

  12. Sally Tudor says:
    November 14, 2010 at 3:14 am

    Thanks, soooo much for the info.–it really helped me to repair a laptop with Vista–that was messed up with a Rogue anti-virus.
    God bless, Sally

  13. matt lavoie says:
    January 3, 2011 at 6:35 am

    Thank you! This error appeared after installing Firefox 3 on an HP laptop, and this solved it instantly.

  14. Kelley says:
    January 22, 2011 at 3:45 pm

    Thanks!

  15. Ramesh says:
    January 28, 2011 at 5:59 am

    its work for me..its also work for all….thank u so much..god bless u….thumbs up

  16. anandraj says:
    January 28, 2011 at 6:34 am

    if i turn off and turn on my pc means it will get come back.the setup will come to default..what can i do? can anyone help me pls

  17. shivu says:
    April 13, 2011 at 4:47 pm

    thanks dude
    it works

  18. Dante says:
    June 7, 2011 at 9:59 am

    Thanks for the info.It worked.

  19. ImTheBest says:
    September 13, 2011 at 7:59 pm

    Perfect!! Thank u dude!

  20. CAM says:
    September 27, 2011 at 6:38 pm

    thanks

  21. Kaoru says:
    April 6, 2012 at 5:32 pm

    Best in the world!!!!!!
    It WORKS!!!!!!

  22. Daniel says:
    January 23, 2013 at 12:15 pm

    This worked for me and my Windows 8.
    I needed to use the “PC Regedit” LiveCD in order to modify the registry, because it got stuck at 27% every time and rebooted. Now it’s up and running again.
    Thank you.

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