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Originally Posted by DNSB
As @davidfor said, it is up to you. If it is really annoying to you, you might try using the CHKNTFS utility to exclude that volume from being autochecked. See CHKNTFS.EXE: What You Can Use It For for more information. From a command prompt, running chkntfs.exe /x E: would exclude your E: drive from being autochecked (substitute the drive letter your ereader mounts as for E  . Enter chkntfs.exe /? for it's help such as it is.
I would recommend this utility as being safer than the alternative of editing the registry. |
Well, you got my hopes up for a while there, DNSB
The linked article sounded plausible, easy to try ... but, alas, it didn't work for me.
I waited (not long) for my Forma to display the usual problem pop-up on connection. I deliberately didn't follow through with scan/fix. Then I ran chkntfs.exe, as Administrator, in a CMD window to stop autocheck on my Forma's assigned J: drive. Had a peek inside the Windows registry to make sure the advertised change had been made as described in the article. Then I reconnected the Forma ... still the problem pop-up.
Then I thought maybe I should have rebooted before it would work. Unfortunately this still had no effect. Forma still reporting problem. I eventually weakened and ran the scan/fix. I've left the registry tweak in place and I suppose it's feasible that the scan/fix pop-up will never appear again but I'm not hopeful.
Given the utility name, chkntfs.exe, I wonder if it's only designed to work for NTFS drives not FAT32 removable drives?
As an aside, a bit of circumstantial evidence for consideration ... Of all my Kobo devices the only ones which have ever had the scan/fix problem are the Forma and the ClaraHD. Coincidentially (???) these are also the only Kobo devices which 'remember' their manually-assigned drive letter after a firmware upgrade. OS issues are not my strong point but is it possible these two observations could be related?