Well, I "almost" always shut down correctly - very rarely has this
machine not been shut down correctly.  With that said, I also VERY
rarely shut this machine down.  In fact, I usually only restart upon
installing something that actually requires a restart.
The reason the question comes up is because Diskkeeper 7 won't defrag
that particular drive since it always has a Disk Check scheduled on it
(I know that's a software list issue too).
Another suggestion was made on how to solve this by Steven Wolfe on how
to correct this, and I'll give that a try :)

Thanks!

Tony Mayer


David Gillett wrote:
>   How are you shutting down the machine?  The classic cause of behavior like
> this has always been simply shutting off the power without allowing the
> applications and OS to shut down "gracefully".  It may be that there is
> information sitting in RAM (either on the motherboard, or in the cache RAM
> on the drive) which needs to actually make it to the platter surface before
> the power goes away.
>
> David Gillett
>
>
> On 31 Oct 2004 at 7:13, Tony Mayer wrote:
>
>
>>Hello everyone -
>>
>>I asked this question a while ago and didn't get anything resolved.  As
>>a bit of further information, I have let diskcheck run complete at
>>startup on several occasions and nothing has been found to be wrong.
>>This drive is not my boot drive and doesn't contain any system files.
>>
>>Can anyone give me tips on how to stop Windows XP Home SP1 from trying
>>to run a disk check on one of my hard drives every time it starts up?
>>There's nothing wrong with the drive, but the computer seems to forget
>>that it's already been checked.
>>
>>Thanks!
>
>
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