disk check

Ok, so i've had my current PC for about a year, and everything has gone smoothly until last night when I started to get some data error when unzipping compressed files. I googled the issue, and learned that this problem can be remedied by running a disk check for errors. So I tried, hit a snag...

Hi I know this may be a long read but I hope you'll read it since I tried to get as much detail about my problem in it as possible. Thank you. my Specs are at the bottom if you wish to read them first. I recently upgraded my GPU and I have been playing games rather intensely since I got it...

When I try to boot Windows 7 in safe mode it waits several minutes after loading drivers, then closes down and reboots to normal mode. I find this in the process of investigating 'unspecified error 766f6c756d652e63 3f1' whereby I cannot check the disk without first doing a system restore and I...

Hi all! I gave my old computer an HP Pavilion Entertainment PC (Product Number WA718UA#ABA) to my husband. I bought it brand new from HP in 2009 with all of the fun upgrade. Anyway, I did a fresh install for him when I gave him the computer, basically just wiped everything. It has been working...

I am very impressed with a new Windows 8 New Disk Error Checking Feature. It takes about 1 minute to complete it and does not require any restart. I remember, that in order to use the Disk Check tool on the same computer with Windows 7, it was necessary to restart my computer and the Disk...

Been getting BSOD the past few week's and i haven't currently found the fix to my problem. running on a custom build pc, did some of the hotfixes found on the web (update drivers, disk check, ect) but BSOD is still quite frequent. here's in my system info and dumps: Link Removed Here the...

A couple of days ago there was an update. After that update my system slowed down a lot. The windows explorer takes about 10 seconds to open. The same kind of thing happened with the update in the beginning of last November. Running the disk error check helped a lot (when I finally found some...

Hey y'all!! I am experiencing an issue with a Win7 laptop crashing pretty consistently. During my attempt to troubleshoot this issue I am learning how to use some of the Window debugging tools (which has been fun) but I think I have finally gotten stuck. I don't know what else to try! It all...

Hi, I have been having a lot of blue screens for the past few weeks. I have tried running a disk check and memcheck and those didn't find any problems. I just did a fresh install of windows 7 64 bit and have been having the same problems. Any help is much appreciated. Link Removed

Hi there, Today I wanted to create a system backup. I have 2 external hard drives, they are pulgged in. I selected one of them erased any files in there and also formated it. Then I started backup manager, didnt choose an image backup because the systme tells me that that particular drive is...

I've tried numerous times to try and update Windows Updates (trying to update on a new computer: Lenovo Thinkpad T530) but every time I shut it off, it says it's updating and it looks like it's doing fine but when I turn it says it's configuring Windows updates and it always gets stuck at the...

I have windows 7 home premium 64 bit it has been working fine but this morning i went to turn on my computer and it worked for a few minutes then just stopped working. it is fine if i am on chrome or another program for about a minute and a half and then the program just freezes. I try to open...

I've had trouble with BSODS and screen freezes on and of for a couple of weeks. Sometimes there is no dumpfile and sometimes there is nothing in event viewer. I uninstalled Avast free and the problem was gone for 4 days. I've tried almost everything. Cleaning out dust updating drivers sfc...

Fixes a problem in which the ChkDsk.exe utility reports an error when you run this utility on a volume that is a multiple of 8 GB on a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

Basically I woke up this morning to my computer sitting at a black screen with the cursor visible I'm able to move the cursor but do nothing else I rebooted my computer my manually shutting it off and then it started up as it would normally but did this disc check: http://i.imgur.com/BKfTU.jpg...

Hello, My daughter's PC, Windows 7 32 bit, all of a sudden started running chkdsk everytime it is booted up. How do we stop this behavior? Her antivirus is up to date and very efficient so we don't know what the computer is checking for. Please advise as it is driving her crazy. Thanks, pvanc

Hi, my system is: Dell XPS 420 Q6600 @ 2.4GHz 8GB RAM @ 667MHz Bios A07 Windows 7 home premium 64 (SP 1) 2 x 256GB hitatchi drives in RAID 0 this system was purchased in 2009 and has not been upgraded with new hardware (apart from RAM immediately after purchase). I have recently experienced...

Please, note the following is the command line for disc check in Windows8. It is slightly different than w/ prior OSs. chkdsk /scan cmd, Run as Admin is recommended. Link Removed Cheers, Drew

I have been researching this problem for days, and Windows 7 seems to be a common factor, hence this post. I have a Maxtor Central Axis network drive that I have used for a number of years for backups. I reorganised it a while back and recently decided to do some housekeeping and empty the old...

Win7 64 wont start on a Sony Vaio. It will sometimes get to the desktop and seconds later it shuts down. No logout, just a black screen total shutoff. when restarted the black screen popped up again but this time it was with the message "windows failed to start" and the options were either...