Fix error check after illegal shut down

Fix error check after illegal shut down

“Dirty Bit” is being set by the machine in your hard drive whenever your machine was not properly shutdown or a power loss during a read-write operation on your drive. When you re-start again your computer the kernel contacts your autochk.exe to scan all drives to check if the dirty bit was set to your drive. Since your computer was not properly shut down there are chances that the Dirty bit was set on one of your drives.  Autochk.exe or error check will perform immediate checking on your hard drives to verify and attempts to fix any problems on you hard drives.  It is always recommended you let your computer running the windows check error to fix any problem. However, you may also try the procedure below to disable the error checking every time you re-start your computer.

1.    Click Start-Run-Type CMD and on the black screen type “fsutil dirty query c:” c-refers on the drive where your operating system is running. The command above will let you know if dirty is being set on your hard drive.

2.    Next, Type “CHKNTFS/X C:” X means that windows will NOT check drive C:  on the next reboot after the execution of step 2, manually reboot your computer. By this time your computer should not perform checking of error and will take you immediately to windows.  

You can also always perform manually checking of error on your hard drives if you like to.

1.  Click Start-Run-Type CMD and on the black screen type "Chkdsk /f /r c:". This will scan your hard drives and unset the dirty bit.

2. Type “fsutil dirty query c:” this command will let you know that the dirty bit was not set on your hard drive.

Note:  Procedures above may have other effect on your computer if not perform correctly.  Please back-up your files always. 

Hope that helps!