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Chkdsk running on every boot
Hi
I've had this problem for the past week or so since trying to install a new SSD as my boot drive to my laptop. I have an Acer laptop and used the Acer backup utility that came with it to make a ghost image of my c drive, although first I had to shrink the partition in windows to allow it to fit on my new Crucial M4 128G SSD. I first backed up to an external drive and then using a bootable CD generated by the back up utility I installed my new drive.
Everything seemed to go according to plan and I stupidly set about making my HDD into storage space by formatting it, and using it in an optical hard drive caddy. I then ran into the problems as stated in the thread title and can't get chkdsk to stop running at boot, even though it finds nothing wrong with the disk.
I originally assumed my problem was the new hard drive and Crucial support suggested it was the method I used to clone my drive. As I'd formatted my original hard drive the only option I had was to use the Acer utility to get back to the configuration I had pre SSD. Only now this drive also has the problem.
I think this pretty much rules out the drives being bad from a hardware perspective? I'm also of the opinion it's the Acer backup utility that's corrupting my windows install. I'm far from being an IT expert that's just the way it seems.
Every possible solution I can find in google has been of no help so far.
One thing I can add is that after running chkdsk at boot, I can run chkntfs at 5 minute intervals after start up and all seems fine until after about 20 minutes when the drive is labelled dirty. This is on both the HDD and the SSD.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Chris