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How to permanantly disable CHKDSK
I have a 128GB flash drive with Windows 7 installed on it using WinToUSB. I use my pendrive in my home PC to sync my files and also in another PC where there's no keyboard. The problem is, on every ...
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How to disable automatic CHKDSK of new drives at Windows 7 startup?
Windows 7 seems to automatically performs a CHKDSK of any new hard-drive installed in a computer at startup (before login screen).
There is a way to skip that by pressing a key but you have to be ...
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Recurring portable drive error: 'The sparse flag in standard information attribute in file _______ is not set.'
I have a portable drive that often slows Windows 10 boot. When performing an error check on this drive as recommended after booting (Properties->Tools->Error checking), it will say errors were found ...
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chkdsk starts on every boot and alot of files got corrupted
Last week my system hdd (1tb) got bricked so, i replaced it with a new one (2tb), that's not a problem at all, the problem with my data hdd (4tb --> 1 partition), windows do chkdsk on that hdd on ...
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PC won't let me skip disk check on drive that isn't needed to boot; how do I make it check the disk while running?
My computer has three non-removable volumes: a solid-state drive I use for booting and storing applications (C:), a much larger hard drive I use for storing the majority of my files (D:), and a two-...
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Windows 8 hang on startup and chkdsk /f /r
Trying to fix a friends Lenovo p400 laptop. The drive is a samsung spin point one terabyte drive.
The system hangs during booting, will go into system recovery, or the uefi firmware settings screen.
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XP SP2 hangs on logo screen, running chkdsk /p /r now hanging
I have a windows xp sp 2 on a toshiba laptop, Ive been using it for many years.
The other day it hung on the windows logo and would only start in safemode.
I did a best configuration, restore, then ...
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Is CHKDSK stalling?
I have a Lenovo Y510p running on Win8.1. I've tried running a CHKDSK on boot but power issues with the charger meant it died while it was running(11%).
I tried SHIFT+F8 to try restarting into safe ...
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Why? - Win 8.1 chkdsk runs each bootup against hidden 450MB recovery partition
This problem won't be easy...be warned.
Windows 8.1 x64 (installed as Windows 8.1, not as an upgrade) with ALL updates installed and working perfectly (as per event log viewer) ...two days ago.
There ...
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In Command Prompt, chkdsk won't run at all
I am unable to boot into Windows 8 after restarting during when some mysterious process was using 50% Disk Activity. So, the first thing I'm trying is chkdsk, but it doesn't run at all. It simply says ...
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CHKDSK from a USB
I am currently on the GParted Live CD, and it is telling me that I have to run CHKDSK /f
I am more that happy to do that, but I cannot boot into windows, and I do not have a Windows Recovery disk ...
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diagnose "corrupt file" problems
My computer has been crashing the last couple weeks pretty regularly (at least once a day). A lot of times things I do will display a little notification in the bottom right saying something about a ...
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