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Good morning fellow Thinkpad junkies! I work for a Silicon Valley company that recently purchased a few hundred T61P and T61 laptops. We evaluated the machines and had no issues, but now that we've started purchasing regular units, we are having issues.

When we install our Windows XP image on the T61 or T61P laptop with a 160GB SATA drive, the machines are running checkdisk on the D: drive and causing data loss. We've checked the obvious (checkdisk is not set to run during reboots) and found the problem on the T61, T61P, and X61S laptops. Each is failing with different BIOS levels (1.26, 1.21, 1.14 all failed) and with different hard drive sizes (80GB, 100GB, 160GB). Has anyone else run into this problem? When we change a PC name or add it to our domain, it seems to pop-up faster. A blue screen appears and forces a chkdisk on D: drive after about every 3rd or 4th reboot. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

See if the following helps you in any way:

Disable Auto Check Disk on Reboot in Windows XP.

Also which partition type are you using for the thinkpads in question, FAT or NTFS?

ryengineer wrote:See if the following helps you in any way:

Disable Auto Check Disk on Reboot in Windows XP.

Also which partition type are you using for the thinkpads in question, FAT or NTFS?

I checked and Auto Check is already disabled. These are NTFS partitions. Thanks for the suggestion, though!

I read in Microsoft Knowledge bases that this could be due to System registry hive or when the Software registry hive is damaged.

I also found a good discussion on another forum, see if it provides you with any relevant info.:

Chkdsk runs each time that I start my computer.