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Windows insists on scanning drive F on startup.

SeanW · 2007-02-10 18:16:07

About a week ago, my secondary hard drive (a Maxtor 300GB SATA II) crashed and took the system with it. It's not the most stable HD in the world :( but disk crashes and failures under SATA II mode are quite rare. Now, ever since then, every time I start Windows, it checks one of the partitions even though the computer had…

10-02-2007 6:16pm

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SeanW

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About a week ago, my secondary hard drive (a Maxtor 300GB SATA II) crashed and took the system with it. It's not the most stable HD in the world but disk crashes and failures under SATA II mode are quite rare.

Now, ever since then, every time I start Windows, it checks one of the partitions even though the computer had been shut down properly.

Any way I can get it to stop doing that?

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#2 10-02-2007 6:36pm

tman

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try going to start > run and typing "chkdsk f: /x /f /r"
That'll dismount it and run a thorough scan and should hopefully stop it from doing that the next time you restart... (had the same problem myself years ago and this resolved it afair...)

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