Anyone know how to turn off Chkdsk?

[Seagoon]

Hi Guys,

Just got back from vacation and found that   my HDD is on the blink. Now whenever I boot up in Windows XP it goes into chkdsk mode and keeps crashing halfway through the test. I can interrupt the chkdsk process, but it keeps coming back again and again and is seriously messing with my ability to use a more powerful disk utility.

How do you kill the automation in XP that makes chkdsk run?

Thanks in advance!

[Clifra Jones]

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[Seagoon]

Thanks Clifra,

Unfortunately several of the files in my WIN32 directory have been corrupted or deleted, so I can't even get it to boot anymore. Now it looks like I'm going to have to reinstall the operating system.

From the sounds of the drive though, I suspect one of the platters might be going and that I'm going to have to buy a new HDD and do a disk to disk.

And to think, all I had to do to get in this mess was not run the PC for 2 weeks.

Thanks again.

- SEAGOON