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New Products? Or you mean Acronis Disk Director Suite LOL So I have a creative mind after all...

Well I'll be damned I re-created my 2 partitions using Acronics disk doctor and guess what... no disk checking at startup. Checked the dirty bit and it is shiny clean B) A big thanks to y'all ! * puts partition magic in the dumpster *

Its possible that you have some regtweak being applied which does that. Check that you can explain what each of your regtweaks is for - if something is not understandable, then that regtweak is not for you. No regtweaks applied by me, only the ProfilesDir setting. I deleted all my partitions and created 2 new ones, ntfs formatted. But still after my unattended install the dirty bit is set... will try soon with acronis disk keeper if I could get my hands on a full version Will post the results here! For now thank you all for your help

Quote from this topic: With my unattended install the ProfilesDir was succesfully placed on my D:\ partition, but another problem occured so I started this thread

Just finished with a normal install and the result is what I expected: no more disk checks at the startup winxp. Checked the dirty bit and it is clean. So I only can conclude that the unattended install is the cause checking my partition at every startup. Has it something to do with the fact that I put my ProfilesDir on that partition (it has to be... can't think of anything else)

I checked the partition and fsutil said: D: is not clean so it is dirty... (here in Holland we seem to have reverse logic ) Now there may be something wrong with the drive... but tomorrow I'll first try to install winxp again but then on a partitioned & formatted disk with the Acronis tool. Will post the outcomings... now I'm off to bed goodnight

You may be right. I used PM for a long while but this problem never occured, so it seemed to me the unattended install caused it. Tomorrow I will try partitioning & formatting the HD with Acronid disk director... btw: completing a full scan does not correct the situation (i've already tried it twice)

Are you refering to the CHKDSK taht runs if the system isn't properly shutdown or the like? If so, the problem is that there isn't a bit being set upon shutting down taht signals the system that it was shutdown properly. Nothing to do with ProfileDir Yes, I am referring to CHKDSK. Which bit should I set then? Using google I found that BootExecute could be the troublemaker but checking my registry I found out that BootExecute = autocheck autochk * was set and that seems to be the (correct) and default setting.

Hello there, I've created a cd-rw with an unattended installation of Windows XP. This all works fine, but for one thing: There are 2 partitions on this computer: 1) C:\ name "system", ntfs, 10GB 2) D:\ name "other", ntfs, 30GB After completing the installation my "other" partition is checked everytime is start WinXP. Checking the partition with various tools doesn't show any error. I think the problem has to do with the fact I put my ProfilesDir on the D:\ partition, because when I perform a regular attended install there's no problem whatsoever. Here's my winnt.sif: ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=No TargetPath=\WINDOWS UnattendSwitch="Yes" [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=* EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=110 OemSkipWelcome=1 ProfilesDir = "D:\Documents and settings" [UserData] ProductID=XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX FullName="User" OrgName="Organization" ComputerName=PC1 [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=Workgroup [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=No [NetAdapters] Adapter1=params.Adapter1 [params.Adapter1] INFID=* [NetClients] MS_MSClient=params.MS_MSClient [NetServices] MS_SERVER=params.MS_SERVER MS_PSched=params.MS_PSched [NetProtocols] MS_TCPIP=params.MS_TCPIP [params.MS_TCPIP] DNS=Yes UseDomainNameDevolution=No EnableLMHosts=Yes AdapterSections=params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1 [params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1] SpecificTo=Adapter1 DHCP=Yes WINS=No NetBIOSOptions=0