Stop chkdsk from running at boot on Windows Server 2003

I have a Windows Server 2003 box that kicked out a few NTFS errors in the file system log. Nothing big but I wanted to take care of it. I checked the drive with the drive manufacturers tools and everything looks good there.

So I thought I should try running a chkdsk /r on the volume. It told me the drive was in use and asked if I wanted schedule it to run on the next reboot. I say yes and reboot the computer.

Now the chkdsk starts and gets up to stage 4 where it hangs. I let it run since Thursday of last week thinking it may just take a long time. When I check back to day it is still going. I need the server running so I reboot the computer. It starts chkdsk again and gives me 10 seconds to hit a key to skip the error check but it won’t stop with a key press. The keyboard is working with the PC as I can get into the BIOS.

I booted with a Win PE disk and verified that the disk is not dirty. I also ran chkntfs /x on the volume as I read that this is supposed to stop the scheduled scan from running. But it still runs following a reboot.

Can anyone give me some insight on how to stop chkdsk from running? I do have backups but would really like to avoid rebuilding this server as that will be a very big job.

Thanks!