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Can I run chkdsk on system startup page after a forced power-off?
Greetings, and a huge thank-you to everyone of the form for all your help!
Here's the deal,
I have a Toshiba laptop (A505-S6980) with a 1 t hard drive running Win7 Personal. (Which IMHO, is not really relevant to the question, but you guys always ask, so I'm telling. )
Occasionally, for reasons that I do not understand, the computer periodically goes brain-dead, and locks up tighter than a jealous crusader's chastity belt on his wife - forcing what I call the "four-second-salute" (like the "three finger salute), that forces a power-down regardless of what the machine is doing.
Note that "occasionally" means extremely infrequent.
Once I do a force-power-off, and restart, I get the typical system recover startup screen advising me that things are not happy, and giving me the usual choices of starting. Usually I select "start-up normally", let the system start, and then manually run a chkdsk on the primary (system) drive. It schedules the chkdsk, and I reboot.
Here's the actual question:
Is there a way to either add, or modify the behavior of, the startup items on that screen?
What I would like is an option that does something like "Start and run Chkdsk" so that I can immediately run chkdsk prior to the initial total restart of the system, as I'd feel much more comfortable if I ran the chkdsk before the system had the chance to really wander over the hard drive.
Can do?
Thanks again for all your help!
Jim ("J.R.")