Windows constantly ckdsk-ing

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Everytime I boot Windows up it keeps performing a chkdsk on my second hard drive, always giving the result as no error.

I'm not sure why it does it or how to stop it.

Help! :S
 
Try aborting the chkdsk before it finishes then let windows boot. Now restart and see what happens.

Not a guaranteed fix but it would seem Windows is stuck in a loop and stopping the process before it finishes might sort it.

SiriusB
 
Could be a physical problem or a corrupted filesystem. Try doing like SiriusB said, if that dosen't work, backup data, repartition and reformat the disk if possible.
 
manually run chkdsk within windows, check fix errors, it may ask for a reboot to get access to the drive let it
usually works for me

that or there is a way to unmount the drive and force checking but i cant remember the command
 
It's odd. Most times it runs it, but sometimes (maybe only 2 or 3 times since it's started happening) it doesn't chkdsk. I've manually done a chkdsk on it, but it stilll does it. I'll try formatting it.
 
I had same problem but it was resolved by flashing my m/b bios to the latest release.

I would never had thought of this because I hadn't put in new hardware or changed settings .... it just started to happen, but the updated bios did the trick :D
 
There is a Registry edit to stop chkdsk running each time you boot/reboot, it is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager

New Dword in righthand pane, AutoChkTimeOut and give it a value of 0

There is no space between "o" and "l" in "Control" (which for some reason appears in this post).

This worked for me a while ago, when I had the same problem. If you use this, backup your Registry first. :)
 
I had a problem where i updated the bios on my NF7-S and didn't update the sata drive, this caused no end of problems. Once the driver was updated problem was solved.
 
my housemate had a similar problem on his HDD, after a few months of me telling him to make a backup, the HDD gave up and never booted up since.

might be worth gettin gyour manufacturer's diagnostics and giving it a one over to check for damage.

how old is the HDD?
 
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