When leaving my thumb drive in the USB slot while booting/rebooting, scan disk occurs.
This occurs when I leave my thumb drive in the port and simply reboot. Is there a way to prevent the scan disk from running every single time, when I know the volume was unloaded previously (without having to hit a button on every boot up)?
I know it's trivial, but it just annoys me.
Jon
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What filesystem does your drive use?
Vintage!
Create a file in the root of the drive bootex.log
This should sort it out.
Maybe this should go under "off-topic" board, but since it's related, I'll put it here:
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I've noticed that behavior sometimes when I leave my thumb plugged in also, but it's far more of a hassle for me just *generally*...
I run XP with the Windows drive formatted to NTFS system, but all other drives with FAT32 formatting. Basically, the PC will just randomly - whenever it feels like it - run Scandisk on startup, and when I *happen* to let it run, far more often than not it don't find SQUAT wrong with my PC...
...IOW, this behavior is mostly a useless pain in the butt.
I've tried renaming "scandisk", "scandiskw", and a few other things, but ALWAYS it continues to randomly scandisk me, so how do I disable this annoying default behavior?...
Can anyone help?...
Thx.
"I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong."
- Brad Stine
File type is not an issue, OS is. In the old days of Win95 it was a simple file that if it wasn't deleted on shutdown, Scandisk would run on startup. Scandisk was used from Windows 3.11 up to Windows ME, NT and XP, Chkdsk and Autochk.
As for the cause, you may have a bad byte in spot that wouldn't show up in a scan or a badly written program not deleting it's trash. The only time I had a problem like that was when my old pin drive was getting ready to die.
If you really want to risk turning this off... here's the MS support info, I would follow the checks before risking the hacks...
---------- Win98 & ME --------------------------------
ScanDisk Runs Even Though Windows Shut Down Correctly
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/273017
------------NT & XP----------------------------------
Chkdsk.exe or Autochk.exe starts when you try to shut down or restart your computer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831426/en-us
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Did you know that the entire operating system use to fit on a 5 1/4" floppy disk!