I just installed a clean copy of kubuntu 9.04 and I have a dual boot with Windows and Kubuntu but for some reason every time I start up windows when I have the dual boot it has to do the disk check thing at the startup. Anyone know why? or is there a way I can disable it?..And this is my second time installing it and it happened both times.

are you mounting an NTFS in read/write mode?
most other filesystems should unmount before the system shuts down, but NTFS has some weird ways of keeping track of when it was last mounted.

Even though I'm not using Ubuntu - using Debian Testing - I'm familiar with the kernel modules employed with this version.

More than likely the kernel employs the "ntfs-3g" module (try 'lsmod' to see if it is running) and if you have read-write privileges, then the system may have an automatic setup where it uses a ntfs-3g associated utility called "ntfsfix".

Try 'man ntfsfix' and/or 'locate ntfsfix' to see if it is on your system. You may have to "grep" your system files to see if it is setup anywhere as an automatic safeguard to ensure that the Windoze files aren't too buggered up when encountering the different file structures & behaviors of a Linux system.

"It only repairs some fundamental NTFS inconsistencies, resets the NTFS journal file and schedules an NTFS consistency check for the first boot into Windows" is quoted from the man listing for this utility.

~A~