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Published on October 6, 2009 By mike b1954 In Personal Computing

Just another quickie hopefully ... ( sitting Comfortably ?)

By that , I mean I hope this is resolved pretty sharpish ...

Chapter 1 ... !

Yesterday ,I bought a brand new External Maxtor 500 gb hd for my mate ( birthday treat) ...

Read all instructions .. installed the usb and the transformer supplied ... no probs ... and plugged in and turned on ..

No problems ... found new hardware popup .. installed drivers ...

Rebooted and the new disc showed up in the my Computer page ... all A - OK  ...

Formatted the disc no probs ....  Checked with Defender , AVG .. Iobit360 Clean as a whistle ...

Copied a few bits and pieces over from his docs and pics to make sure everything is fine ...

 It was ....

After this I left him to go home ...

This morning ..I get a call to pop round and I see his PC is running a CHKDSK routine , on his new HD,

and found out it had been doing it for a couple of hours ...

and he still had not seen his logon screen ...

  I then held in the main start button on the pc  ~ it turned itself off , I waited a couple of minutes ~

and then I hit the On button again ...

Once I did that after a few secs the CHKDSK started to run again on the new HD ..

I pressed "any key" ~ and LO and behold Vista started ...

Chapter 2 ....

So ~ ~

Once again I ran the Defender, Avg etc ... clean as a whistle .. again ... Rebooted ,

~ and the damn CHKDSK started running again by this time I was totally flummoxed ,

as was the birthday boy !

So I tried to find out using the help and support section how to TURN OFF the CHKDSK

function for that drive

and had no luck .....

Chapter 3 ... !

Which leads me to the question ....

HOW DO I TURN THE DARN THING OFF SO IT NEVER DOES IT AGAIN .... ? ?

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Dual-booting Vista Home Premium ~ all Service packs and up to date (new PC)  and Windows 7 RC build7100

Intel CoreDuo E4700 at 2,60 Ghz , Nvidia Geforce 9300 GE ... 

( Sorry its was long winded Guys and gals , I thought I had better try to explain things as they happened .... )

Mike

(ps sorry for the large font .. I put my spex down somewhere and cant find them ...)


Comments (Page 1)
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on Oct 06, 2009

Hi Mike, hold on a sec, I went looking for help for you. 

on Oct 06, 2009

 

on Oct 06, 2009

Thanks Philly !  

( hehe .. See if you can find my spex   )

on Oct 06, 2009

Did you use a disk defragger to defrag the disc? Thus it failed to run on reboot - like diskeeper maybe?

Even so it or something has set a dirty bit on the drive no matter what you do to it - that is change drive letter or even remove and then place it back. The system see it has adirty bit set for it.

Thus you need to clear that up - so - go to run and type cmd press enter then at the dos command screen type CHKDSK /F C:  

 C: being whatever the drive letter is set for - you will need to set that correctly. Close the screen and reboot the system. It should work out ok after that.

Oh by the way CHKDSK will not or should not be run on an external drive. This is not always true depending on the system. But in most cases it will happen and CHKDSK will stay there till you shut the machine down and restart the system and then press the bypass key.

Let me know?

on Oct 06, 2009

 Oh I've been there and done that Mike, be very careful where and when you sit down or step even. 

on Oct 06, 2009

Ooops, did it again  

on Oct 06, 2009

Boot into bios and set correct boot sequence.

on Oct 06, 2009

yrag Thanks for Popping in :

 Just tried that one .. did a restart ~  No change ....

 ( forgot to mention the PC has Vista and W7 on C: and D : W7 starts up ok .. Its only the Vista Side with the prob

.. the Maxtor is on usb J:  ...Sorry ... )

Now trying a switch off and wait a minute or so , then a switch on .. back in a bit ...

on Oct 06, 2009

Sorry to keep you waiting ...

No Change with a Switch off and on ...

on Oct 06, 2009

What file system did you format the external to? Does it boot correctly when the J drive is disconnected?

on Oct 06, 2009

Ok go to the all programs list and accessories choose the command prompt from there but right click it and run as administrator.

Then type chkntfs /x J:   press enter

then type fsutil dirty query J:   press enter

if it says the dirty bit is not set for that drive you should be good to go

on Oct 06, 2009

Running so many security apps could be messing with your drive too.  Usually recommended to only have one antivirus and one antispyware app installed (which often are the same app) (though that doesn't mean you need to disable Defender, its pretty harmless.)

on Oct 06, 2009

Yrag ...NTFS , and yes it boots correctly when J  (the Maxtor ) is disconnected ...

Shelby ...  Doing now....

and it says Volume J is dirty ...

 

on Oct 07, 2009

Format FAT32 (Quick) in the Disk Management Console (either Vista or Win7). Boot into bios: USB Legacy Support: Enabled.

on Oct 07, 2009

go to the drive in computer and right click it and select properties - then go to tools - then in the error checking box there select check now besure automatically fix is checked for the box there and go start let that run then run the command prompt again with the fsutil dirty query J: - thus what does it say? if it is clear you should be good to go. If not there maybe another problem with a update for Vista. But we will see about that after I know for sure.

Be sure you do this in the Vista OS

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