E drive is constantly disk checking!
In my Dell 2100 computer, I have 2 hard drives, C: and E:. E: was added a couple months ago, C: came with the system.
For the last few weeks, about 70% of the time when I turn on the computer, it wants to check the file system on E:. I let it do it sometimes, but I mostly hit the keys to cancel out of it.
Why would it want to do this? Nothing has changed on the E: drive except for adding extra files, and the E: drive hasn't had any problems.
And how many times does it need to check itself to realize nothing has changed? You'd think once would be enough.
I'm buying and building a new system soon, and I'll be using these hard drives. I don't want this problem to follow me to the new computer.
For the last few weeks, about 70% of the time when I turn on the computer, it wants to check the file system on E:. I let it do it sometimes, but I mostly hit the keys to cancel out of it.
Why would it want to do this? Nothing has changed on the E: drive except for adding extra files, and the E: drive hasn't had any problems.
And how many times does it need to check itself to realize nothing has changed? You'd think once would be enough.
I'm buying and building a new system soon, and I'll be using these hard drives. I don't want this problem to follow me to the new computer.
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Try this:
Run chkdsk(and if this is an earlier operating system you will use scandisk instead) from within windows. Open My Computer with a click on its icon. RIGHT-CLICK the E: drive icon. Click properties.
Tell it to run the Drive Error check(on Tools tab dialog). Check the boxes that tell it to Check the drive for alll errors (you do in this case want it to run all checks once, these can default off if you do not check them). It will tell you it will check when you start windows up next time, probably. With 2000 and XP, what will happen is that if you check these two boxes, the chkdsk will check journals, check free space noted on drive versus actual, and try to repari any errors. If it finds and fixes errors, then you want to run the disk defragmenter, and see if it can complete.
If it cannot, look for worms or other viruses on computer, specifically scan all files and archives on E: drive and C: drive. worms do not change file info in a legal way as far as journlas go, they can rename or move files. If you have programs on E: drive than those files can be altered by a worm and the result is a bad journal. Because worms act independently of Windows, the journal gets out of sync with what is on the HD. Files can vaporize as far as journals go, and the renamed and\or moved files can not get journalized right to "appear" as new files in the journal. You need to get the journal back in sync, then kill the worms if any.
If you still have problems after this set of actions, then let us know what happened -- writing down major errors would be good, so we can see what happened.
John D.