Solved Win 7 & 8 swapping - why chkdsk at boot?

in2jesus

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Hi everyone! First thing to know is that I have removable disk drives and there are 6 all together. Second, I installed Windows 8 Pro on it's own physical drive and it works just fine. If I remove the Windows 8 drive, and put my Windows 7 drive back in, then the OS initially does a chkdsk of each of my disk drives. All boots thereafter don't do this. But if I remove the Windows 7 drive, and put Windows 8 back in, it initially runs a chkdsk again. But doesn't do it in boots thereafter if I leave the drive in place.

Ouestion: this takes about 5-10 minutes every time I swap OS's. It never did this when I swapped with Vista or XP system drives...only with Windows 8. How can I prevent this...or can I? It's just that this takes so darn long to run chkdsk on 5 other disk drives every time I change between win 7 and Win 8 system drives.

Any help here would be appreciated. Thanks.
 

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    Windows 8.1 Pro / 7 Ultimate
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    custom build
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    i7-4770K
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    ASRock Z87 Extreme6
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    14GB = One 8GB and 3 x 2GB SIMMS
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My Computer

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  • OS
    64-bit Windows 10
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    PC/Desktop
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    Custom self built
    CPU
    Intel i7-8700K OC'd to 5 GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
    Memory
    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING
    Sound Card
    Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27"
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    2560x1440
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    1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2,
    4TB Samsung 990 PRO PRO M.2,
    8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS
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    OCZ Series Gold OCZZ1000M 1000W
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    Thermaltake Core P3
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    Corsair Hydro H115i
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    Logitech wireless K800
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    Galaxy S23 Plus phone
Windows 8 does not like Hd Drive swapping OS's. Doing a dual boot will stop is.
 

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    ME, XP,Vista,Win7,Win8,Win8.1
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    Notebooks x 3

    Desktops x 5

    Towers x 4

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  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro / 7 Ultimate
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    custom build
    CPU
    i7-4770K
    Motherboard
    ASRock Z87 Extreme6
    Memory
    14GB = One 8GB and 3 x 2GB SIMMS
    Graphics Card(s)
    MSI R6850 Power Edition
    Sound Card
    Realtec ALC1150 (integrated)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer H236HLbid IPS
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    2 - OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SSD, Sandisk Extreme 120GB SSD
    PSU
    Corsair HX620W (modular)
    Case
    10 bay server case
    Cooling
    std intel cooler
    Keyboard
    AZIO Backlit
    Mouse
    Logitech Anywhere MX
    Internet Speed
    MiFi 4620L on VZW 4G LTE - 12Mb/s
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    Bitdefender
Windows 8 does not like Hd Drive swapping OS's. Doing a dual boot will stop is.
I tried that. And my Office 2010 gets deactivated. I assume it's because the same product key is used in each OS. So I need to stay with one OS or the other, not both, to satisfy the EULA verification process.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro / 7 Ultimate
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    custom build
    CPU
    i7-4770K
    Motherboard
    ASRock Z87 Extreme6
    Memory
    14GB = One 8GB and 3 x 2GB SIMMS
    Graphics Card(s)
    MSI R6850 Power Edition
    Sound Card
    Realtec ALC1150 (integrated)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer H236HLbid IPS
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    2 - OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SSD, Sandisk Extreme 120GB SSD
    PSU
    Corsair HX620W (modular)
    Case
    10 bay server case
    Cooling
    std intel cooler
    Keyboard
    AZIO Backlit
    Mouse
    Logitech Anywhere MX
    Internet Speed
    MiFi 4620L on VZW 4G LTE - 12Mb/s
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    Bitdefender

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    64-bit Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom self built
    CPU
    Intel i7-8700K OC'd to 5 GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
    Memory
    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING
    Sound Card
    Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
    Hard Drives
    1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2,
    4TB Samsung 990 PRO PRO M.2,
    8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS
    PSU
    OCZ Series Gold OCZZ1000M 1000W
    Case
    Thermaltake Core P3
    Cooling
    Corsair Hydro H115i
    Keyboard
    Logitech wireless K800
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master 3
    Internet Speed
    1 Gb/s Download and 35 Mb/s Upload
    Browser
    Internet Explorer 11
    Antivirus
    Malwarebyte Anti-Malware Premium
    Other Info
    Logitech Z625 speaker system,
    Logitech BRIO 4K Pro webcam,
    HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn,
    APC SMART-UPS RT 1000 XL - SURT1000XLI,
    Galaxy S23 Plus phone
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