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by hop228

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When my pc has crashed or i need to reset it without doing it the normal way i get a message just b4 everything loads up saying 1 of my discs needs to b scanned for integrity, and it says its called fat32, i let it scan but got tired afta 0% progress afta 24 hours so everytime i load up i have to wait for it and cancel this screen which adds a good 30 seconds to booting up, this as u can guess can b a bit fecking annoying. so is there anyway i can get rid of this?

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by mgosselin

1. open my computer
2. right click on c:
3. click on properties
4. click on tools
5. click on error-checking

do either of the boxes have checks in them? if so, this is why your computer runs the checks at system startup. if not, you should check them both (you will be prompted to restart), and restart. your computer will then restart, then go through the scan (hopefully fix the bugs) and boot normally. let this run fully the first time.

fat32 is a file format, concerning your hard drive. it is a pretty old version. if your computer crashes regularly, you might try and save all of your documents, then reload your Operating System specifying that you would like to "reformat harddrive to NTFS". NTFS is a newer, more reliable file format.

by rcom

You may have a corrupt file table or the drive may be going bad. Disabling the scan at startup will work but the worry should be why the drive won't start or complete the scan. Word of advice, get the drive checked out.

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