Chkdsk and Indexing

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Win XP Home SP3.

For the past several weeks Chkdsk has run on my System Drive (C:) each time
I turn the computer on. I generally turn in on just once a day and leave it
on.


A recent chkdsk log is at the end of this post. The 'cleaning up' entries in
each log for each day vary only in the number of unused entries. Sometimes
it is just 2 and others many more.

I unchecked the 'allow indexing' on the system drive and so far no further
appearances of chkdsk appears when booting from power on.

Can someone explain what is going on here and help me have indexing on the
system drive an a chkdsk free boot?

Thank you very much.


Event Type: Information
Event Source: Winlogon
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 4/6/2009
Time: 7:48:03 AM
User: N/A
Computer: PRIMARYII
Description:
Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is System.


One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You
may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended
that you continue.
Windows will now check the disk.
Cleaning up 2 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 2 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 2 unused security descriptors.

62918540 KB total disk space.
16233032 KB in 66164 files.
29644 KB in 6393 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
154832 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
46501032 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
15729635 total allocation units on disk.
11625258 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
b0 3c 01 00 78 1b 01 00 09 82 01 00 00 00 00 00 .<..x...........
76 1c 00 00 02 00 00 00 67 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 v.......g.......
f8 31 c6 05 00 00 00 00 96 a1 af 31 00 00 00 00 .1.........1....
22 b5 02 0d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "...............
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c4 35 7e 4b 00 00 00 00 .........5~K....
99 9e 36 00 00 00 00 00 00 39 07 00 74 02 01 00 ..6......9..t...
00 00 00 00 00 20 c9 de 03 00 00 00 f9 18 00 00 ..... ..........

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.


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Jack Gillis said:
Win XP Home SP3.

For the past several weeks Chkdsk has run on my System Drive (C:) each
time I turn the computer on. I generally turn in on just once a day and
leave it on.


A recent chkdsk log is at the end of this post. The 'cleaning up' entries
in each log for each day vary only in the number of unused entries.
Sometimes it is just 2 and others many more.

I unchecked the 'allow indexing' on the system drive and so far no further
appearances of chkdsk appears when booting from power on.

Can someone explain what is going on here and help me have indexing on the
system drive an a chkdsk free boot?

Thank you very much.


Event Type: Information
Event Source: Winlogon
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 4/6/2009
Time: 7:48:03 AM
User: N/A
Computer: PRIMARYII
Description:
Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is System.


One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You
may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended
that you continue.
Windows will now check the disk.
Cleaning up 2 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 2 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 2 unused security descriptors.

62918540 KB total disk space.
16233032 KB in 66164 files.
29644 KB in 6393 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
154832 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
46501032 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
15729635 total allocation units on disk.
11625258 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
b0 3c 01 00 78 1b 01 00 09 82 01 00 00 00 00 00 .<..x...........
76 1c 00 00 02 00 00 00 67 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 v.......g.......
f8 31 c6 05 00 00 00 00 96 a1 af 31 00 00 00 00 .1.........1....
22 b5 02 0d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "...............
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c4 35 7e 4b 00 00 00 00 .........5~K....
99 9e 36 00 00 00 00 00 00 39 07 00 74 02 01 00 ..6......9..t...
00 00 00 00 00 20 c9 de 03 00 00 00 f9 18 00 00 ..... ..........

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.
Click to expand...


Different indexing.

Backup your stuff to be safe. Check your hard disk drive with the hard disk
drive manufacturer's diagnostics utilities.

It's probably just an NTFS issue - but why it would be starting up recently
and consistently - that is the part that has me concerned.
 
Much snipped.

Different indexing.

Backup your stuff to be safe. Check your hard disk drive with the hard
disk drive manufacturer's diagnostics utilities.

It's probably just an NTFS issue - but why it would be starting up
recently and consistently - that is the part that has me concerned.
Click to expand...

Thank you, Shenan.

I have checked the disk with the manufacturer's utility and it shows no
problems. Also, I have repeated the procedure of disabling the indexing on
the drive and enabling it several times just to be sure about not using
XP's indexing. Same results each time -- no indexing works fine, indexing
does not. I just noticed that the same exact situation exists on my other
partitions ( 2 on the slave and 3 on the master as well as my 'My Book' usb
drive). Whenever I run chkdsk on those, I get the 'cleaning up unused
indexes......' message with indexing enabled and don't get it with indexing
disabled. Go figure!

Thanks again.
 
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