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Hi There,

I have chkdsk running on startup approximately every 1 in 3 times I boot my computer. I did check for a "dirty bit" and it was clean. How can I figure out what's causing this?

Thanks,

Justin
 

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I ran Western Digital's Data Lifeguard application and the boot drive passed with a flying green check mark. It's almost brand new.
 

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Do you do a clean shutdown of your computer each time or do you just power off by holding in the Power button? That can cause chkdsk to run.

When you shutdown, are you ever prompted about some process not closing and to click a button to force it to close? This can also cause chkdsk to run.
 

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Occasionally my rig freezes and task manager won't start to kill the process and I have to do a hard restart. But the chkdsk running occurs a lot more often than that. I have never had the second issue you mentioned. It always shuts down fine.
 

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Thanks for suggestions.. I did read that post when I was researching this problem on my own. I tried it, but the initial command prompt did NOT find the drive to be "dirty" as the poster suspected. I wonder if I could still use the chkntfs /x c:
command to prevent chkdsk from running for no reason since I'm pretty sure the drive is fine. Or if it is a corrupt install of windows maybe I need to just bite the bullet and reinstall, even though I just went through that a month ago when I replaced my last failed hard drive. Any thoughts?
 

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Have you installed anything lately. Drivers, windows updates new software etc. I have occasionally had this problem and full chkdsk ran clean. I had to restore to a recovery point before the install to get rid of it.
 

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I have installed several programs and drivers and all windows updates over the past month or so this has been occurring. The problem is I can't really pinpoint when this began, so I wouldn't know where to set the recovery point. Is there an event log that shows when chkdsk first ran?
 

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You need to look for source = Wininit Event ID = 1001
 

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Thanks for the link. I'm having a little trouble with this part of the directions:

7. Go back to the top of the log file list in the middle pane of Event Viewer, then copy and paste Wininit into the line, and click on Find Next. (see screenshot below step 5)
NOTE: You can continue to click on Find Next to search for other older application logs (if available) for Check Disk (chkdsk) to see them as well.

If I understand it correctly, after I've found all Chkdsk events, going back to the "Find" box on the right and entering Wininit and asking it to Find again should further narrow events down to just the times Chkdsk has run on startup. When I do that the results are exactly the same as when I searched for Chkdsk (9000+ instances). Obviously that isn't the actual number of times Chkdsk has run on startup.

Sorry if the answer to this is really obvious. I'm not very computer savvy. But you probably already figured that out.
 

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Follow the tutorial carefully, start over. There should not be a problem with the tutorials. If you carefully follow instructions and continue to have problems, we will investigate further.
 

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The easiest way is to create a new custom view (action->Create custom view). In the wizard select

1. Event Logs. Check Windows Logs from the dropdown
2. In the event sources dropdown check wininit.
3. Press Ok and on the next page give it a name.

This will give you a list of all chkdsk records during boot
 

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richc46 you were right. i was using the "find" feature on the right side rather than right clicking applications on the left. unfortunately though when i try it the way the tutorial suggests my "find" option is greyed out. i'm running eventviewer as administrator... i'm attaching a screenshot.
 

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I am just the messenger for those great tutorials, I know that if followed they will work.
 

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Yeah I wouldn't exactly say I found the answer. I just changed the problem.
 

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You need to click on Application with the left mouse button first to select it, then you can right click and select Find. At least that's how it worked for me.
 

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