You could script setting the dirty bit with fsutil-
fsutil dirty set C: If a volume's dirty bit is set, this indicates that the file system may be in an inconsistent state. The dirty bit can be set because the volume is online and has outstanding changes, because changes were made to the volume and the computer shutdown before the changes were committed to disk, or because corruption was detected on the volume. If the dirty bit is set when the computer restarts, chkdsk runs to verify the consistency of the volume. Every time Windows XP starts, Autochk.exe is called by the Kernel to scan all volumes to check if the volume dirty bit is set. If the dirty bit is set, autochk performs an immediate chkdsk /f on that volume. Chkdsk /f verifies file system integrity and attempts to fix any problems with the volume. From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 8:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OK boys and girls, how do you go about... ...having 300 users run CHKDSK /R? I need to roll out PGP encryption to this many laptops and I want to do a disk health check first. I don't really want to depend on my users doing it, but since you can't work while a Windows surface check is running I can't just arbitrarily push it out. Alternately is there a 3rd party tool that can do this while the OS is running? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
