By determining why it's running and eliminating that problem. I'd suspect
either a failing hard drive or something that causes Vista to crash or shut
down improperly and run scandisk when it's restarted.
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"Michael" <Michael@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Every time I boot or re-boot Vista Ultimate, it runs chkdsk on my C-Drive.
> This takes a considerable time - almost 1 hour. For some reasons my usb
> keyboard is disabled in this process and I therefore cannot cancel it.
> After
> chkdsk has run through 5 long stages Vista then re-boots and reports that
> c-drive is free of errors and Vista loads up normally.
>
> How can I prevent chkdsk from running by default on every boot?