Windows 10: Windows 10 hates my external usb dock hard drive.

Long story short:

In 2018 I Installed Windows 10 on an internal HD, and the system had an external USB dock with a 4TB drive attached. After 2 days of use, Windows 10 decided to helpfully 'repair' the 4TB drive. Forcing me to buy a 8TB drive to clone the 4TB drive, then recover all the files due to the file partition table being fucked.

(Used Rawcopy + DMDE for the process).

Today when I booted my computer, I stupidly had the external dock USB 'powered' and Windows 10 decided to helpfully 'Repair' the external dock 4TB drive again.

So now It is back to DMDE and I have to buy a new 8TB drive (as the old one is full) to do the whole fucking thing again.

Between these dates there never were any problems.

Is there a way to make windows 10 NOT fuck up external drives, outside of not having the device powered up during bootup?

I assume it is running chkdsk, so maybe there is a way to kill that piece of ....

For reference: I ran with the same USB dock under windows 8.1 and never had any issues during all the years 8.1 worked (Before I needed Gsync w. Freesync)

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I'm running the latest version of Windows 10. I have a new INATECK FD2005 external dual drive dock connected via USB to my Dell XPS 8910 desktop. Everything is working fine and the dock is recognized and seems to be working normally, except that it has a feature which will put it into sleep mode after 30 minutes of inactivity which isn't working.

I asked Inateck and they said there's no special driver for this function and it's part of the dock's circuitry. The only thing that would prevent it from going into sleep mode is if it's being accessed.

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Please advise.

Thank you.