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Today's misadventure began when I shut down Windows to change the hard disk and then tried to boot into Linux.

 

When I turned the computer back on, it displayed "Windows is resuming" instead of its multi-boot menu. Oops. I forgot that you can't start a different system after shutting down Windows unless you turn off fast boot, which makes booting even slower than it otherwise is. You have to "resume" the system in Windows, then restart it.

 

So I let it come up. At the password prompt I noticed a "power" icon in the lower right corner, and thought I'd save a few seconds by clicking that instead of logging in and restarting from the Start menu.

 

That was a big mistake. Windows started madly scrubbing the disk. It wasn't installing updates, at least it didn't say so. It just sat there displaying the wallpaper and scrubbing away.

 

After about ten minutes the screen went black, but Windows went right on with whatever it was doing to the disk.

 

Another five minutes passed. I left to find another machine and write this query.

 

What is it doing?

 

If it's still scrubbing away when I go back, is there any way to make it stop?

 

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