Disk needs to be checked for consistency

I am currently having an issue. When ever I start up my PC, the following message appears:


Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is ACER.

One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You
may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended
that you continue.
To skip disk checking, press any key within 1 second(s).


This message counts down to 1 second and freezes. I tried leaving it for 4 hours today as I went for school. Came home, and it was still on this screen. As I said, every time I start up my computer, this message appears and I am forced to force shut down the computer if I do not hit a key in time.

I am wondering if there is an alternative, recommended option to run this disk check to avoid skipping this message every startup.



Thanks in advance.
Sean

If you can boot into Windows and have an Internet connection download startupcpl from MIke Lin's page and install it. This will give you a new icon in your control panel named 'Startup'. Run it and go to the RunOnce tab. You should see the link. Delete it and reboot.

The only other way to do this would be run\regedit and do a search for 'Runonce' and delete the entry from there.

Would this simply just be bypassing this disk check? As it says, it is strongly recommended I run it. Should I not be doing so?

I began having the same issue this week too and so followed your tip... first reboot caused a full chkdsk to run and thereafter no problems!. Thank you very much

Dave

I was having the exact same problem where the timer would get stuck at 1. Yours was the first solution I found that seemed to make sense so I tried it and bypassing the timer worked perfectly. Thanks!

I'm having the same problem but I can't get into windows now.. please help ><