Sheaf Saint Posted 6 January, 2009 Posted 6 January, 2009 Help! I have a Seagate USB hard drive connected to my PC and every time I boot up, Checkdisk comes up and tells me that it needs to be checked for consistency. It runs through the scan and tells me everything is fine and that there are no bad sectors or anything like that, but then it does it the next time, and the next time, and the next time. I know I can just 'press any key' to skip the disk check but does anyone have any idea why it is doing this and what I can do to stop it?
Marsdinho Posted 6 January, 2009 Posted 6 January, 2009 What happens if you boot up without it connected / turned on then connect it / turn it on.
SuperMikey Posted 6 January, 2009 Posted 6 January, 2009 I used to get that to tell me to check the internal drive on my old PC. F*ck knows why, but it doesn't happen on my new laptop. It's just something you need to put up with I guess.
saint_stevo Posted 6 January, 2009 Posted 6 January, 2009 change the boot sequence and set external devices/removables etc to the last option? poke in the dark
thesaint sfc Posted 7 January, 2009 Posted 7 January, 2009 I'd be concerned and run some diags on the hdd if I were you. http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/02/23/disable-or-stop-auto-chkdsk-during-windows-startup/
Baj Posted 7 January, 2009 Posted 7 January, 2009 at a guess, its an ntfs partition thats not shut down properly on reboot.
Sheaf Saint Posted 7 January, 2009 Author Posted 7 January, 2009 at a guess, its an ntfs partition thats not shut down properly on reboot. Actually, now that I look at it in Disk Management, it's not actually a NTFS volume. It doesn't specify a file system at all. I'm led to believe that you can convert a FAT or FAT32 volume to NTFS without destroying the data held on it. Is this true?
thesaint sfc Posted 8 January, 2009 Posted 8 January, 2009 Actually, now that I look at it in Disk Management, it's not actually a NTFS volume. It doesn't specify a file system at all. I'm led to believe that you can convert a FAT or FAT32 volume to NTFS without destroying the data held on it. Is this true? Pretty certain you can't.
St Landrew Posted 8 January, 2009 Posted 8 January, 2009 Actually, now that I look at it in Disk Management, it's not actually a NTFS volume. It doesn't specify a file system at all. I'm led to believe that you can convert a FAT or FAT32 volume to NTFS without destroying the data held on it. Is this true? NO..! BTW, Just unplug the bloody thing.
Sheaf Saint Posted 9 January, 2009 Author Posted 9 January, 2009 I'd be concerned and run some diags on the hdd if I were you. http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/02/23/disable-or-stop-auto-chkdsk-during-windows-startup/ I tried running a full scan for and fix errors and it came up with nothing. There's nowt wrong with the drive I'm sure. Cheers for that link though, the change to the registry seems to have done the trick.
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