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Trying to disable chkdsk completely.
I was unsure whether this should go here, or in crashing/debugging.
Now before I start, I'm fairly sure the reason chkdsk even comes up is when I play around on my Ubuntu partition, although if so, that's very unfortunate.
Why I don't want chkdsk:
Last time I had a chkdsk come up I let it simply do its thing, however it took nearly 10 minutes. When my computer finally started up I was missing about 75% of my data. ALL of my music, pictures, videos, downloads, documents, saved games (really anything inside the users folder). As you can imagine this was very frusterating, I had literally lost all of my personal information..
It took me an entire week to try and recover the data, back it up, and the worst part, sorting through it all, everything was scattered in randomly numbered folders. I still have lots I haven't gone through, and some of the items I did recover had already managed to get corrupted, even after not downloading/saving any data to that drive.
I firmly believe there was nothing wrong with my disk, except Ubuntu making windows THINK there was something wrong.
my question:
I just want to be able to disable chkdsk completely. When I start my computer chkdsk comes up, and because I keep skipping it, it's going to ask again and again each time.
I've already tried option 1 and 2 from here, but it still comes up:
Check Disk - Reset
but this guide seems to call it "reseting" chkdsk, so doesn't that only mean it will immediately detect and want to run it again?
EDIT: actually within 20 minutes after making this post I had walked away, when I came back my computer had managed to restart and chkdsk was at it again! it was on the 1 of 3 stage at 80% and it just shut the computer off. Turns out a live update or something made my computer restart. It doesn't appear anything is gone, but since I cut it off, it asked to do it again when I started it back up. I really need this to go away before I lose everything again.
If chkdsk is truly critical to have, maybe it's best that I back up my drive, reformat it, then copy all the information back over?
Last edited by mikeeey; 21 Jun 2012 at 13:39.