Our very own Windows 7 chkdsk bug

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Microsoft’s Steven Sinofksy was right to elegantly demolish rumours that an error with Windows 7’s Check Disk facility could derail the launch of the operating system.

However, chkdsk has been causing a fair bit of irritation in the PC Pro office since long before this particular molehill was Googled into a mountain.

So far, it’s only affected myself and fellow newshound Stuart Turton, but practically every time we boot our Windows 7 RC machines, chkdsk kicks into action. That gives us precisely ten seconds to remember to press a key to cancel the process, or sit there for a couple of minutes while chkdsk diligently scans our drives and reports… no problem whatsoever.

Has anyone else seen this bug? If not, we’re launching a full-scale investigation into why Microsoft’s trying to monkey with the PC Pro news team.