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i ran scandisk on my 2nd drive (raw) which i didnt know u couldnt run scandisk on the raw drive.. now that windows reboots/boots up it comes up with the checking e drive for errors, cant check its a raw drive.. how can i get rid of that screen, i dont really scare if i can scandisk the drive, i just want that checking, from the boot up....

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Windows is simply trying to run its boot-time disk check on a volume it can't understand, so autochk prints the "raw" message and stops. There are two safe ways to stop the boot prompt: tell Windows not to check that drive at boot, or repair/reformat the volume so Windows recognizes it.

To stop the check without touching data, run an elevated Command Prompt and exclude the drive from boot-time checks:

chkntfs /x E:

That tells Windows not to auto-check E: on startup. Reboot to confirm the message is gone. To restore default behavior later, run:

chkntfs /d

If you can move the files off the disk (as noted), the cleaner fix is to back up everything and reformat the partition to a Windows file system (NTFS or FAT32 via Disk Management or the Format dialog). After reformat, run chkdsk E: /f once to verify the filesystem.

If the drive really contains important files and Windows reports RAW, avoid writing to the disk until you attempt recovery. Do not reformat until you have an attempted recovery or a backup. For recovery, either use reputable recovery tools or a professional service; recovery attempts can make later recovery harder, so proceed cautiously.

As suggested, reformatting is the straightforward cure if you can spare the data. Editing the registry BootExecute entry can also remove scheduled checks but is riskier—always back up the registry before making changes.

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my op is win Xp sp2 pro,, i ran scan disk on a raw drive, windows cant do it, so every time i reboot, it displays that message, how do i get rid of it from the reboot...

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It would really help to know why the second drive is raw to begin with. Was it ever formatted?

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yeah, the 2nd drive was formated from an old os, i threw onto my comp for the extra space, not running am os on it, just space.. i just want to remove the checking scandisk thing from the boot up...

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...Then it's not really "raw". Do you have any data on it right now?

Try running CHKDSK from within Windows, perhaps using the Command Prompt. Let it finish running, and see what happens.

If you don't have any data on it, you might just be able to reformat the drive...

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yeah it has data on it,, but i can easily take it off, and put it onto my original drive,, no i tried running the scandisk within windows, but i get the same error, as i do if it boots up.

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Yeah... try removing the data and then reformatting the drive.

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