"Scanning and repairing drive D"

[Pherule]

I have two drives:

C: is Windows 8
D: is Windows XP

I dual boot, and it defaults to XP. If I want to choose Windows 8, I press F8 during the boot and go from there. For a couple of days it was working fine, but now whenever I try to load Windows 8, it gives the message "0% scanning and repairing drive D".

Well excuse me Windows 8, you don't have permission to touch my precious Windows XP install. There's nothing wrong with my XP drive nor with XP itself in this case. Windows 8 does not give me the option to skip or bypass this scan and "repair".

I Googled a little and discovered that other people have had their secondary hard drives destroyed by Windows 8 when this happened. It basically scans the drive, "repairs" it, and then whoops, you can't use the drive again unless you format it. There goes all your data.

So where to from here? Do I have to keep unplugging the power to my XP drive every time I need to run Windows 8, or is there another solution?

 

[Pherule]

I found the answer myself: http://www.ehow.com/how_7375550_prevent-chkdsk.html



1. Click "Start," type "regedit" into the "Search" box, and press "Enter." The Registry Editor opens.
2 Click "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager" in the left pane of the Registry Editor.
3 Double-click "BootExecute" in the right pane of the Registry Editor.
4 Type "autocheck autochk /k:C /k😀 /k:E*" (without the quotation marks) into the "Value" box. Note that this command will prevent Chkdsk from scanning the C, D and E drives. If you have an additional drive, you will need to add it to the code. For example, to add a F drive, the final code would read "autocheck autochk /k:C /k😀 /k:E /k:F*."
5 Click "OK."
6 Close the Registry Editor and restart your computer.

edit: blasted emoticons. It's supposed to be "/k: D" (without the space)