Forced checkdisk after switching between OSs in dual boot

If you are copying files back/forth between W7 and W10 or even W8.1 might be your problem.

Evidently, this IS a problem -- as I mentioned it some time ago, since I "share" a data partition between Win8.1 and Win10, and was noticing that when I downloaded something in Win8.1 to the shared volume, when I later booted into Win10, the file was not there.

I've had to resort to copying to USB to do the file "transfers", as well.

I guess it's good to know, now, that it's not just my system that is having this problem.

Mark Phelps said:

Evidently, this IS a problem -- as I mentioned it some time ago, since I "share" a data partition between Win8.1 and Win10, and was noticing that when I downloaded something in Win8.1 to the shared volume, when I later booted into Win10, the file was not there.

I've had to resort to copying to USB to do the file "transfers", as well.

I guess it's good to know, now, that it's not just my system that is having this problem.

I discovered this during another thread I started and was going to mention it but the whole thread got deleted.

OT a bit: Are you retaining your restore points in W10? The default "might" be set to OFF but I lose mine as soon as I boot into W7.

Mark Phelps said:

If you are copying files back/forth between W7 and W10 or even W8.1 might be your problem.

Evidently, this IS a problem -- as I mentioned it some time ago, since I "share" a data partition between Win8.1 and Win10, and was noticing that when I downloaded something in Win8.1 to the shared volume, when I later booted into Win10, the file was not there.

I've had to resort to copying to USB to do the file "transfers", as well.

I guess it's good to know, now, that it's not just my system that is having this problem.

I never experienced that issue. My data drives are available to both W7 and W10 and there is never a problem of finding files in either OS. The only reminder of which OS was used to download or create a given file is in the file "owner" - the username from another OS is of course not recognized and in the ownership column in file explorer you just see a long alphanumeric.

However, when switching between OSs sometimes the checkdisk is triggered. This is very annoying since it takes a long time to go through all the drives in my system. Once again, this issue has come up already during W8 testing and there was a useful solution, but I can't find the relevant thread in either eightforums or sevenforums. My solution was to install the second OS with all other drives unplugged and it worked for a while, but somehow with the latest build of W10 this does not work anymore, suggesting that this was not a solution in the first place.

unifex said:

I never experienced that issue. My data drives are available to both W7 and W10 and there is never a problem of finding files in either OS. The only reminder of which OS was used to download or create a given file is in the file "owner" - the username from another OS is of course not recognized and in the ownership column in file explorer you just see a long alphanumeric.

However, when switching between OSs sometimes the checkdisk is triggered. This is very annoying since it takes a long time to go through all the drives in my system. Once again, this issue has come up already during W8 testing and there was a useful solution, but I can't find the relevant thread in either eightforums or sevenforums. My solution was to install the second OS with all other drives unplugged and it worked for a while, but somehow with the latest build of W10 this does not work anymore, suggesting that this was not a solution in the first place.

If you are getting the CHKDSK, you are experiencing the issue. Not all systems react exactly the same.

when ever I boot to my win10 on a 500gig hdd and use it for awhile and then reboot to my win8.1 on a 120 ssd drive it does a chckdsk of the ssd drive , ido not have a separate storage drive in the computer ,no do I copy any files from one drive to another ,both are using the same windows acct for sign in,and both have onedrive to sync

caperjack said:

when ever I boot to my win10 on a 500gig hdd and use it for awhile and then reboot to my win8.1 on a 120 ssd drive it does a chckdsk of the ssd drive , ido not have a separate storage drive in the computer ,no do I copy any files from one drive to another ,both are using the same windows acct for sign in,and both have onedrive to sync

I guess that your saying that there isn't any files being shared between the two OS's, correct?

Okay, try this. Check to see if you have any restore points saved in W10? Since Windows creates one before installing updates although W10 doesn't tell you that it is, you should have some at least. You'll probably have no restore points in W10 but doesn't this mean that there is "some" file sharing going on the between the two OS's?

wptski said:

caperjack said:

when ever I boot to my win10 on a 500gig hdd and use it for awhile and then reboot to my win8.1 on a 120 ssd drive it does a chckdsk of the ssd drive , ido not have a separate storage drive in the computer ,no do I copy any files from one drive to another ,both are using the same windows acct for sign in,and both have onedrive to sync

I guess that your saying that there isn't any files being shared between the two OS's, correct?

Okay, try this. Check to see if you have any restore points saved in W10? Since Windows creates one before installing updates although W10 doesn't tell you that it is, you should have some at least. You'll probably have no restore points in W10 but doesn't this mean that there is "some" file sharing going on the between the two OS's?

not even opening any files ,iam not doing anything but web surfing when in win10,,, , i am running 2 drfferent drive ,on there own sata cables ,i dont understand what restore point have do to with it .or anything else for that matter. the win8 ssd is set first boot in the bios , to boot to win10 , i use f12 key to bring up boot options and choose the drive with win10 .

caperjack said:

not even opening any files ,iam not doing anything but web surfing when in win10,,, , i am running 2 drfferent drive ,on there own sata cables ,i dont understand what restore point have do to with it .or anything else for that matter. the win8 ssd is set first boot in the bios , to boot to win10 , i use f12 key to bring up boot options and choose the drive with win10 .

The restore points shows that there is some interactions between the two OSs. If you check your system protection in either OS you'd see that one has control of either one. Just making the point that there is interaction.

wptski said:

caperjack said:

not even opening any files ,iam not doing anything but web surfing when in win10,,, , i am running 2 drfferent drive ,on there own sata cables ,i dont understand what restore point have do to with it .or anything else for that matter. the win8 ssd is set first boot in the bios , to boot to win10 , i use f12 key to bring up boot options and choose the drive with win10 .

The restore points shows that there is some interactions between the two OSs. If you check your system protection in either OS you'd see that one has control of either one. Just making the point that there is interaction.

ok, thanks for the info