How Do I Turn This Nasty Feature Off?

By "This" I mean some sort of automatic scandisk service that occurs before the user selection screen appears. This service destroyed some very important personal files and I want it off. I suspect that I can do this via MSCONFIG but I don't know what this service is called. Here are the details of what happened:

I recently installed Home XP on my D drive as a dual boot with ME on C. On drive E, I have a directory called "BMP" that was created via ME. Immediately after booting to XP, a full screen window with no visible controls appeared telling me that my E drive is corrupt and "needs" to be looked at. It then told me I could cancel but it "strongly recommended" that I do not. What makes this "nasty" is that this window had absolutely no visable controls and there was no instruction on how to cancel. So I had no choice but to wait. Suddenly, without warning, the window reported that my entire BMP directory was unreadable and it had removed it. Then it converted lost chains to files.

This service is clearly unethical because it gave me no choice. I would have preferred to confirm that the directory was unreadable by other means, but XP gave me no choice. XP arrogantly removed my directory without my permission!

What is this service called and how do I get rid of it?

Is there a way to examine the files that the lost chains were converted to?

 

chkntfs is in the help

 

Thank you, Dorfmann, for pointing me in the right direction. For others interested in this thread, the program that caused my problem is WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\Autochk.exe. This program runs in the blue "Recovery Console" before the "Welcome Screen" appears. Normally, you are given a 10 second opportunity to cancel (via Y/N) a "repair process" when a volume is flagged as dirty by the "file system." Too bad, if you are not watching the console!

My solution was more expedient. I used Windows ME to effectively delete Autochk.exe by renaming it (This cannot be done within XP because XP immediately replaces it). This apparently worked because the Recovery Console posted the message, "AUTOCHECK PROGRAM NOT FOUND - SKIPPING AUTOCHECK." If any problems arise, I will reinstate Autochk.exe and let everyone know what happened. Otherwise, all appears well.

 

nice feature......sometimes

autocheck really prolly should NOT be disable. But if ya wanna startup in safemode command prompt & rename the extention to .old

 

Here is a pleasant thought:

Woudn't it be easy for someone to write a virus that flags volumes as dirty so that Autochk.exe removes them? Possibly there are safeguards preventing such a virus from operating under XP, but what about such a virus operating from within other operating systems in a multiboot configuration?

This brings me to another question. Where are these "dirty volumes" flagged? If they are flagged in a list contained in a single file, I want to know the name of this file and how to edit it.