Windows 8.1 wants to scan & repair my drive on every boot

I have this identical problem mentioned here:
http://www.eightforums.com/performa...scanning-repairing-volume-volume-startup.html

I think it has something to do with my deleting the 'system reserved' 350mb partition when I reinstalled W8. I don't want it showing in My Computer and when I go into Disk Management and give it a drive letter, this message goes away on boot. But, since I can't merge this very small partition with any other drive, I'm not sure how to not show this drive and not get the scanning message on boot up.

Please post a full screen Disk Management screen shot

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2598-screenshots-files-upload-post-eight-forums.html

Here are 2 screenshots. The first one is from the system that I've never had trouble with nor did I delete the partition when I installed 8.1. As you can see, it shows the 'System Reserved" disk but this does not show in My Computer.
The second shot is showing the 'Z' drive that I made active so that I would not get the scan message at boot up. If I tell it not to give the drive a letter, it does not show in My Computer but the message appears at boot up.

Thanks for your help!

Someone more experienced with GPT systems please chime in. I don't want to make an uneducated guess that may render the system unbootable.

I started to read about what is required for GPT partition setup and I was more confused after I read the information. Sorry but I just don't want to make things worse.

I appreciate your reserve. I hope someone else has some ideas.
Thanks!

I don't see any evidence that there are any GPT styled drives here. The OS drives certainly aren't. Hard Drive - GPT or MBR - Windows 7 Help Forums Are you using Bitlocker or any other type of drive encryption that could be dependent on the partition?

No, I have no drive encryption on ANY partition.

Just to satisfy my curiosity, was this system UEFI boot to start with? I don't think I get what happened. Also in the tutorial for detecting if the drive is GPT or MBR one has to right click and look at the properties. I don't see how that can be done to a screen shot. So what is the tell tale? I'm just wondering which way this goes.

Yes, is' UEFI.
I did find a way to fix it and think I should now leave well enough alone.
I followed this with ease and it worked.
How to hide Disk Partition in Windows 8 | GeeksripeGeeksripe

That was my thinking, to simply hide the partition. But I was reluctant to suggest it because you made it active and the system booted. I can see this GPT stuff is going to be the source of a lot of tech fees.

Hi MilesAhead
If a hard drive is GPT then it must have an ESP (efi system partition) for it to be bootable, which the boot drive in the screen shot does not have, hence it must be MBR/msdos configured. Also GPT drives don't require Active partitions so Disk2 in the second screen shot is also not GPT. True I could not say for sure that Disk0 and Disk3 are not GPT styled, because it is possible for data drives to be GPT even if the OS drive is not.
The Windows System and Boot Partitions - Multibooters.com

If the boot drive is MBR configured then it means the bios must be booting in MBR mode, even though it may be UEFI capable. Many current UEFI boards are dual function and will automatically use the firmware that the boot drive requires.

Jack.

The whole thing was confusing. I did read the stuff about the auxiliary partitions(for lack of a better term.) Apparently the OP changed to MBR booting at some point. Anyway, I'll wrap my head around it eventually. Thanks for the clarification.

I'll admit I'm a newb at the software side of building computers but I've built 7 in the last 3 years and never had a problem like this. And, I didn't knowingly do anything other than to install 8.1 over a previous installation but formatted both the system reserve drive as well as the OS drive then after it installed, I set the drive in Disk Management with no letter so it wouldn't be seen. That caused the system to show a scan & repair at every boot.
Then I tried to merge the drive with 3 types of partition software but they all gave messages that it would cause boot problems. So, next time, I leave the reserve drive alone.

Beerman said:

I'll admit I'm a newb at the software side of building computers but I've built 7 in the last 3 years and never had a problem like this. And, I didn't knowingly do anything other than to install 8.1 over a previous installation but formatted both the system reserve drive as well as the OS drive then after it installed, I set the drive in Disk Management with no letter so it wouldn't be seen. That caused the system to show a scan & repair at every boot.
Then I tried to merge the drive with 3 types of partition software but they all gave messages that it would cause boot problems. So, next time, I leave the reserve drive alone.

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I'm not criticizing you. The GPT stuff is new to me. I just got my first W8 machine last October. So I'm trying to figure it out as I go along. Trial and error goes along with the territory. I had some big hassles back in my 486 days getting 5 different OS to coexist on the machine. Most of the time stuff didn't work on the first go 'round.

Having a similar problem i followed the standard procedure to solve it.

First i made a recovery disk(usb) of my system(don't tick the box "Copy contents from the recovery partition to the recovery drive")
Then i booted from the created usb
Finally i selected to run command prompt and typed: chkdsk c: /f
Press enter and let the system to check and repair the disk
After rebooting the annoying "Repairing Disk" on every boot message had disappeared