How to Cancel Chkdsk on a Slave Drive

When a hard drive becomes corrupted, the Chkdsk utility performs a maintenance inspection during computer start-up. This typically consists of fixing potentially corrupted data and recovering bad hard drive sectors. Despite being a helpful procedure, it may often take a while to finish its task, depending on the slave drive's capacity and overall damage. To cancel Chkdsk on a slave drive, its set schedule must be canceled using the Windows Registry Editor applet.

• 1

  Go to "Start" and type "Regedit" from the "Search" field. Press "OK" to launch the Windows Registry Editor.

• 2

  Go to the following directory structure: "Hkey_Local_Machine\ \System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager."

• 3

  Double-click the "BootExecute" entry to edit its attributes. Within the "Value Data" field, remove any command written after the "Autocheck Autochk *" entry. For example, if Chkdsk is set to inspect the "D:\" slave drive, remove all data written after said entry. This will effectively cancel Chkdsk from performing its task on any given hard disk.