"For the Birds" <FortheBirds@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:71C38EB3-494E-4C54-BEC9-79372612DE71@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Yeah, I did actually find an application event and it says that Volume C:
> was
> not defragmented because is marked as dirty and it directs me to run
> chkdsk.
> The problem is that I schedule error checking for the next restart but it
> never actually scans. It just start normally. I'm not sure what is
> causing
> this.[/color]


I haven't seen this in Vista, but I do remember seeing the same problem in
XP a couple of years ago. Basically, the registry got out of sync with the
drive, I guess. In XP there's a registry setting that you can change to
unmark the drive as dirty. Sorry, but I don't remember the reg key value and
don't know if that still holds true for Vista. Sorry I'm not much help at
the moment, but you can go off and Google something like "incorrect dirty
flag" or something like that.

Good luck.

Lang