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How can I stop chkdsk at boot time from checking volume x?

April 26, 2017boot checking chkdsk time volume

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How can I stop chkdsk at boot time from checking volume x?

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A. When NT boots it performs a check on all volumes to see if the dirty bit is set, and if it is a full chkdsk /f is run. To stop NT performing this dirty bit check you can exclude certain drives. The reason you may want to do this is for some type of removable drive, e.g.