Chkdsk runs everytime I restart

I never had this issue before, but following my Windows 7 rebuild, chkdsk now runs everytime I restart (right after the Starting Windows page)

QUESTION : How do I stop chkdsk run everytime I restart?. Sometimes it does the C drive, sometimes the D. Sometimes it finds things, sometime not. Never find any bad sectors. Seem to rebuild indexes a lot. The drives are 10 months old. Please dont suggest a reformat. I would sooner throw the machine in the garbage. Did rebuilds a 100 times already.

SIDEBAR : I really cant take too much more of my Windows 7 machines. Such a drain on my time and patience. Problem after problem after problem, Rebuild after rebuild. Been on DOS/Windows since the beginning, and I have invested so much energy and knowledge into it, but I really hate it now. Too many problems - all new or recent machines. All new software. Spend more time fixing them than using them. Its so unfair. Very tempted to buy my first Mac and run to the Apple store as needed. I bet anything to would take less time and effort to run and wait at the Apple store than the collective time I spend now. I really dont know for sure though if Apple is any better. I suspect it is.

Sidebar: I have 7 different machines, a mixture of old (more than 3 years) laptops and desktops (three Atoms, a Fusion, and a Core i3), all of them running Windows 7 rock solid. I've also installed 7 on a ton of laptops and desktops at work (32 and 64 bit, with and without manufacturer Windows 7 drivers), and they also work fine. Without more information on which computer is having problems for you (complete system specs, what drivers, what software) I can only guess that you either have serious hardware or software problems, none of which are related to the actual Windows OS.

Question: Have you done any troubleshooting on your drive? Have you taken it out and slaved it into another computer and run a full diagnostics on it? The age of a drive sometimes has nothing to do with it failing. If you have, and it only has issues on the Windows 7 computer, then I believe it's a driver (motherboard, chipset, etc) issue or possibly a power issue - have you checked the power supply?

And the hard drive? Have you run any diagnostics on it? Tried it in a different computer?

When you reinstall the OS, do you install the drivers from the Dell website, or do you let Windows find and update them automatically? Just wondering, as I reviewed one of your threads just now and you didn't mention where you get your drivers from, other than a Windows NIC update killed your computer - which I'm assuming is this same computer.

There are some that say you should let Windows take care of all of the drivers. I do not believe in the philosophy. Unlike a Mac, which totally controls all hardware that you can basically attach to it, a Windows machine has millions of pieces of hardware, and they can't be expected to get everything correct - especially drivers for laptops made by Dell, HP, etc.

I ran through the WIndows Disk Check process ( Computer/Properties/Tools/Errors/ Automatically fix. etc) and on a reboot it went though all 5 stages without incident. Could not tell what it fixed as I did not wait around while it processed and it do not stay on the screen when it was done... but it appeared to have worked, Next few reboots worked good.

I ran the Dell Diagnostic utilities, it too passed every test I ran.

I downloaded the Hitachi Fitness test , burned to DVD , booted with it, it ran, but after that was useless as it could not even find any drive - must be some incompatibilty somewhere... but I felt confident as the other tests were positive.

I then rebooted again -still good - but then that ugly popup came up reminding me of 14 updates ready to install - I confirmed none were NIC related and let it rip.

And right back to square one... frozen screen, failed windows updates and check dsk on reboot.

So I give up (again)

Perhaps its just a 'dirty' attribute that needed to be reset?? No harm trying to reset that I suppose.

Other than that, look like I am back to a reformat again, if I have the patience.

Either way, format or not, I am just going to leave it when I'm done, as at this point I am just chasing errors. There is no end game here. No finish line. I've seen a few hundred posts on the topic of "chksdsk on restart following a win 7 install" . I really highly doubt that all those user simulatenaeous;y had hard drive problems...just like I highly doubt that I do.