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Dual boot dirty bit problem
As a feasiblity test for a neighbor, I set up a Windows 7 + Windows 10 dual boot machine with each OS on different HDD's, intending to switch using BIOS boot menu. When I restarted I got a chkdsk message about corrupt drives - all partitons including system reserved seemed to have a problem. I clicked several times to cancel the check and everything worked OK, but obviously this isn't ideal.
The chkdsk problem didn't go away, so I let the checks/repair proceed and it found and corrected 1000's of 'errors'. Then I found the boot order had changed so the newest OS had priority regardless of BIOS setting. Chkdsk seemed to have screwed things up somehow.
I saw a solution online using cmd and ' chkntfs /x c: ' to reset the dirty bit, but the system reserved partitions don't have a letter. I know there's a standard way to dual boot, but I'm puzzled why my method doesn't work.
I seem to remember seeing this problem dual booting W8 and W7, but can't remember if I solved it.