How to Stop windows 8 auto disk repair on boot (non-boot drive)

hansrotec · Apr 17, 2013

I have a hardware raid5 (non-boot disk - not used as a cache) and occasionally disks will offline with a false failure (seems to always be two drives, and always different ones), (still working out what causes this and it only happens in win8)

most of the time this just offlines the raid and i can fix it once home by reboot to bios and letting it rebuild, however if windows 8 faults due to the raid offlineing and reboots on its own it skips the bios and goes right to windows 8 repairing the offlined drives that have come back up destroying the raid

anyway the whole point here is to find out a way to stop windows 8 from attempting to repair HDDs when it boots and thinks the disks are bad. the raid card can repair the array in bios and in windows but not if windows destroys drives in the arry (well it could survive one, but not two)

thankfully so far no data has been lost as its backed up to a freenass box, but its a pain to rebuild and time consuming, slowing down my project work.

(I know its partially my fault for moving it to a windows 8 box, I just wanted to offload the raid from my primary PC so i could tinker with the primary pc again. windows 8 was used on the new box and not windows 7 due to: a it being 49 buck for windows 8 pro at the time : b wanting to try a new os )

Emerald · Apr 18, 2013

what make and model are the HDD in the RAID?

hansrotec · Apr 18, 2013

Seagate SV35 Series ST3000VX000 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB *6

HighPoint RocketRAID 2720SGL 8-Port PCI-Express 2.0 x8 SAS/SATA RAID Controller * (I know weak, but i dont put much through it)

again the issue i have is with windows 8 repairing drives automatically on reboot, i can handle the raid rebuilding on its own until i either replace the raid card or move to windows 7

Pherule · Apr 18, 2013

There is one way I know but there is a small problem. Unplug the non-boot drive. Start your computer, go into Windows 8. Edit the registry:

Code:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager
BootExecute = autocheck autochk /k:C /k:D /k:E /k:F /k:G /k:H /k:I /k:J*

Unfortunately the drawback is your Windows 8 will probably no longer shut down. You'll need to do a hard shutoff (hold in power button for 10 seconds) then plug the second drive in, boot Windows, and go from there. To make Windows 8 shut down again you'll need to change the registry setting to what it was before, but then of course it will attempt drive repairs on boot again.

Honestly Windows 8 is garbage. I wish I could use Linux but.. gaems.

hansrotec · Apr 19, 2013

Pherule :

There is one way I know but there is a small problem. Unplug the non-boot drive. Start your computer, go into Windows 8. Edit the registry:

Code:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager
BootExecute = autocheck autochk /k:C /k:D /k:E /k:F /k:G /k:H /k:I /k:J*

Unfortunately the drawback is your Windows 8 will probably no longer shut down. You'll need to do a hard shutoff (hold in power button for 10 seconds) then plug the second drive in, boot Windows, and go from there. To make Windows 8 shut down again you'll need to change the registry setting to what it was before, but then of course it will attempt drive repairs on boot again.

Honestly Windows 8 is garbage. I wish I could use Linux but.. gaems.

this might be the solution, i let you guys know after the raid rebuild finishes, and well a drive offlines again. its all backed up if it goes belly up so no worry about data loss.

again thanks for the idea

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