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    Win8 diskscan on reboot to Win7

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by paradigm, Jan 30, 2013.

  1. paradigm

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    hi guys just wanted to ask your opinion regarding my installation of Win 8

    i installed win8 pro as a cheap upgrade of sorts on a win7 pro i got on my laptop (M17xr4). I installed the OS in such a way that i could select a bootup drive (in bios) and execute the OS without being a dual boot os (where you can select an OS over the other...i have forgotten the term for it :) )

    i used legacy boot in bios (as UEFI meant having to convert the entire HDD to be converted to a GPT state), ergo Win8 is on an NTFS partition

    win7 Ult. is safely installed on a SSD

    so now i have 02 Win OS one 8 and the other a 7Ult. on a HDD and SSD respectively....expecting them to work independently of each other

    However if i boot out of win8 pro and select SSD as the boot drive on restart (to get into win7), i get the CHKDSK scan prior to booting into the Win7 Ult. region, and despite the fact this is run time and time again, i have no errors in any scan, and neither does win7 ( have any errors)

    can you explain why is this happening.... everything else (BIOS, drivers via dell's website are all updated)

    thanks
     
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    I'm guessing it is some sort of conflict between Windows 8 and the legacy boot + using MBR instead of GPT.

    If you boot out of Windows 7 and into Windows 8, do you get the CHKDSK prompt then as well? Or is it only for the reverse?
     
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    I only get an error (chkdsk) when I boot out of win8 and going towards 7
     
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    You can try updating the firmware on the drives, but I have a feeling it's a partition-type conflict. If you were to use UEFI and a GPT partition for both drives and both OSs, you probably wouldn't run into the CHKDSK screen.

    You can disable the CHKDSK at startup by making a small registry edit though. Back up your registry first (or create a system restore point) and then try this (this is for Windows XP, but I confirmed that the entries and values are the same in Windows 7):

    How to disable the CHKDSK - Check Disk, on start up for Windows 7 - Microsoft Community
     
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    Yeah but the issue is if CHKDSK is activating what's causing the trouble
     
    paradigm, Feb 1, 2013
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    Right. Try the registry trick I linked you to; hopefully that prevents CHKDSK from initiating at boot. Just make sure to either back up your registry or make a Windows restore point, first.
     
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