Sheaf Saint Posted 6 January, 2009 Share 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsdinho Posted 6 January, 2009 Share Posted 6 January, 2009 What happens if you boot up without it connected / turned on then connect it / turn it on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMikey Posted 6 January, 2009 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_stevo Posted 6 January, 2009 Share Posted 6 January, 2009 change the boot sequence and set external devices/removables etc to the last option? poke in the dark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesaint sfc Posted 7 January, 2009 Share 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baj Posted 7 January, 2009 Share Posted 7 January, 2009 at a guess, its an ntfs partition thats not shut down properly on reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheaf Saint Posted 7 January, 2009 Author Share 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesaint sfc Posted 8 January, 2009 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Landrew Posted 8 January, 2009 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheaf Saint Posted 9 January, 2009 Author Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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