Does a manually initiated crash (bugcheck 0xdeaddead) trigger a disk-check?
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Windows has an advanced function built-in that lets a user manually initiate a BSOD. It is a debugging tool used to halt the system in the event of (though not necessarily limited to) a hang or freeze.
When used, it causes a BSOD with the string MANUALLY_INITIATED_CRASH1
and whimsical code 0xDEADDEAD
.
The point to this crash is that it is purposely done by the user, so it is not (or at least should not) be an unpredictable event caused by hardware errors or bad drivers (at least not necessarily bad drivers).
The question then is whether performing a manual crash properly flushes the disk caches and such so that the drive is in a valid state when rebooting and thus forgoing the need to have chkdsk
run.
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