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likely the reason a checkdisk is triggered on a drive, is that it is having an issue.<br />
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check whether the drive has the dirty bit set<br />
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fsutils dirty query d:<br />
see if it returns that it is dirty.<br />
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How old is the external drive? Commonly harddirve have a three/five year depending on the model.<br />
when buying the drives enclosed in the external case, I think the warranty is only for a year...<br />
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let the chkdsk d: run to see what it reveals.<br />
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then if needed run chkdsk /r d: to have the issue repaired.<br />
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But plan on getting a newer external, possibly a NAS with RAID capabilties. qnap, synology, etc.
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each partition can have a dirty bit set, which will trigger a check disk scan on bootup...
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<p>I have an HP laptop that was returned to factory fresh on the OS drive (C:). &nbsp; Running Windows 10.&nbsp; The D: drive I formatted as NTFS just to clean all files off. &nbsp;Now every time I reboot I get "Fixing )D:) Stage 3: &nbsp;100% (0 of 0); Total 99%; ETA 0:00:00". &nbsp; It stays like this for about 10 Minutes then finally comes up to sign on screen. &nbsp; How can I stop this?</p>
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I have an HP laptop that was returned to factory fresh on the OS drive (C:).   Running Windows 10.  The D: drive I formatted as NTFS just to clean all files off.  Now every time I reboot I get "Fixing )D:) Stage 3:  100% (0 of 0); Total 99%; ETA 0:00:00".   It stays like this for about 10 Minutes then finally comes up to sign on screen.   How can I stop this?

How can I stop disk repair from happening every time I boot?

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