Win8 diskscan on reboot to Win7

hi guys just wanted to ask your opinion regarding my installation of Win 8

i installed win8 pro as a cheap upgrade of sorts on a win7 pro i got on my laptop (M17xr4). I installed the OS in such a way that i could select a bootup drive (in bios) and execute the OS without being a dual boot os (where you can select an OS over the other...i have forgotten the term for it )

i used legacy boot in bios (as UEFI meant having to convert the entire HDD to be converted to a GPT state), ergo Win8 is on an NTFS partition

win7 Ult. is safely installed on a SSD

so now i have 02 Win OS one 8 and the other a 7Ult. on a HDD and SSD respectively....expecting them to work independently of each other

However if i boot out of win8 pro and select SSD as the boot drive on restart (to get into win7), i get the CHKDSK scan prior to booting into the Win7 Ult. region, and despite the fact this is run time and time again, i have no errors in any scan, and neither does win7 ( have any errors)

can you explain why is this happening.... everything else (BIOS, drivers via dell's website are all updated)

thanks

 

I'm guessing it is some sort of conflict between Windows 8 and the legacy boot + using MBR instead of GPT.

If you boot out of Windows 7 and into Windows 8, do you get the CHKDSK prompt then as well? Or is it only for the reverse?

 

I only get an error (chkdsk) when I boot out of win8 and going towards 7

 

You can try updating the firmware on the drives, but I have a feeling it's a partition-type conflict. If you were to use UEFI and a GPT partition for both drives and both OSs, you probably wouldn't run into the CHKDSK screen.

You can disable the CHKDSK at startup by making a small registry edit though. Back up your registry first (or create a system restore point) and then try this (this is for Windows XP, but I confirmed that the entries and values are the same in Windows 7):

How to disable the CHKDSK - Check Disk, on start up for Windows 7 - Microsoft Community

 

Yeah but the issue is if CHKDSK is activating what's causing the trouble

 

Right. Try the registry trick I linked you to; hopefully that prevents CHKDSK from initiating at boot. Just make sure to either back up your registry or make a Windows restore point, first.