re: Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems'
Friday, March 28, 2008 at 11:37 pm
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Posted by kumar
(1 messages posted)
I want to know if the file bootex.log can be disabled.
Every time chkdsk performs a disk check, it saves the bootex.log file in the corresponding
drive and I have to delete it manually everytime. Is there any way to disable this
autosaving feature?
On Monday, March 22, 2004 at 9:32 pm, Bob Smith wrote:
>No. Bootex.log is a file created by chkdsk.exe when it is run; its results are rolled
>into the main log after the system finished booting. If chkdsk.exe is interrupted,
>bootex.log can become corrupted. When chkdsk.exe runs again, it tries to write to
>bootex.log, which is, unfortunately, now corrupt. It doesn't know this until after
>the check; so even though it was deleted by chkdsk.exe, it was written to in the
>mean time and is therefore still corrupt. The fix is to run under the Recovery console
>by either booting from the Windows XP CD or running \i386\winnt32.exe on the Windows
>XP CD with the argument /cmdcons. When in the console, run chkdsk.exe /p to fix
the
>file. Then type del c:\bootex.log to remove the offending file. Reboot, and all
is
>taken care of.
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