Win2k - "Your disk is being checked for consistency"

I’m in the process of setting up a triple boot win98/2k/Linux machine. I’ve got all the partitions the way I want them, 98 and 2k are installed one after the other (haven;t put Mandrake on yet), and both will successfully boot. Problem is, during the 2k boot, up comes a DOS_looking screen saying “One or more of your drives needs to be checked for consistency. We strongly recommend…blah blah… hit any key to cancel test” (which I do).

Why does it do this and what do I do to keep it from doing so?

I have BootMagic but should I bother with it or just use LILO?

Thanks y’all in advance.

Capn

Here’s a limerick I found on USENET back before the web was popular.

A mathemetician named Hall
Had a hexahadronical ball
The cube of its weight
Times his (manhood) plus eight
Is his phone number - give him a call!

Don’t cancel the test. Let it do its thing. Afterwards, it should start normally.

It is best to let CHKDSK complete, but type chkntfs /X [drive letter] at the command line if you really want to cancel it.

As an aside, you can shorten the length of time Windows waits to begin the disk check by typing chkntfs /T:[number of seconds]. The default of 10 seconds has always seemed too long to me.