It sounds like the "dirty bit" is stuck on, causing the hard drive to
go into chkdsk on every boot. This happened to me also. It was not my
primary partition so reformating the secondary drive "D" corrected the
problem.

In a "run" or command prompt window type "chkntfs C:" This will tell
you if the dirty bit is always on.

Do a search on "reset dirty bit" and you should find some ways to
correct the problem. Formatting the drive may be the sollution of last
resort as the dirty bit is often a result of a Master Boot Record
write error.


On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:31:01 -0700, DAVIDA
<DAVIDA@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
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>when my pc starts up there is a message ---checking the system in C.Type of
>file system NTFS, Volume Label is Vista.
>
>then CHDSK is verfying files (stage 1 0f 3)
>5% complete (70785 of 125952 file records processed)
>After about 3mins the welcome to vista screen comes up and the windows
>programmes are open.
>How do I stop this ocurring repeatedley??
>DavidA.[/color]