Suddenly, every single reboot it schedules a CHKDSK on my data drive which obviously is rather annoying, and also prevents and defragmenting to be done. I tried to do a full CHKDSK overnight, but when i got up, it was at 10% after 10 hours.......so obviously i am not waiting 100 hours for this thing! Its a newish 750GB HDD, 600GB of the capacity filled. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks
What OS are you running? I don't know about Vista (never used it) but all older Windowses have the Scheduled tasks thing. You might try disabling it from there. Also, if you don't find it in there, you might try Startup inspector (freeware, Google it). See if CHKDISK is trying to do a surface scan. It will take a very long time on a 750GB HD...
I'm running XP Pro. No, its not running as a Scheduled Task. Its not trying to do the full scan, repair, etc, just the brief 30 second one. My worry besides it being annoying is that something IS wrong with the HDD (i think i heard it making unusual vibrating sort of noises earlier, and it was vibrating itself a lot). Problem is, when i manually tell it to do the full scan (those brief ones never find anything), it only managed to scan 10% in 10-11 hours. Which obviously is ridiculous as i cant spare 100 hours for this thing. As a side note Speedfan's SMART analysis didn't find any issues, except that the power-on hours or something is 97 instead of 100, which is also the same on my other (identical) drive.
If the HDD's SMART is flagging an error or there have been excessive failed writes on the drive in the last windows session then chkdsk will run every boot automatically. I'd start looking for a new drive.
try using seagates seatools software, and run a long test (works on most makes of drives) - this will take a few hours i guess. It will also show up most errors if any. And what Uncertaingod said
