I know this is off subject, but I hope some of the server experts will be kind enough to offer some advice.
I am running XP x64 (Based on Server 2003) and occasional I experience very long boot times. When I installed IE7 long ago the reboot in the middle took about 1.5 hours. My system was busy the whole time with lots of HDD activity. Recently I went to do a defrag and when I clicked on Analyze, I recieved a message that said I needed to run chkdsk. I then re-booted and chkdsk ran and displayed a few messages including saying it had found and repaired a corrupt index. This took several minutes. Later I started seeing BSODs (Stop 1E) and several re-boots that took 1.5 hours or more. Last night I read up on chkdsk and scheduled it (chkdsk c: /f) and re-booted. This took about 1.5 hours. When I could, I issued a Turn Off via the Start menu. This took more than a hour (went to bed - missed the end). My research revealed that if the 'dirty bit' is set, chkdsk runs automatically at the next restart. I looked in my System log and found no disk errors. I did find a pair of ntsf errors (file system is corrupt - please run chkdsk) for 10-15-08, around the time this all started. I think I know what caused this error (a fat finger on my part lead to a quick restart), but I do not know why I am seeing the very long re-boot times occasional (e.g., IE7 install), but I do think it is chkdsk running. I have looked for the chkdsk logs with no luck.
I hope someone can advise me as to where the log is as well as to why I see the running of chkdsk with no device errors.
My C disk is a RAID0 pair of WD Raptors, about 150GB total space.
Thanks much, John.
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Windows XP Pro x64 Edition;
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