"Restart to repair drive errors" keep showing up after reboot

The disk drive error is a constant warning on my PC at the moment - and I believe that it's software related - either Windows upgrades or AdAware 11.

I have regularly run CHKDSK and it finds no problems - to get rid of the annoying Action Center message - go into Action Center and turn off the drive status message!

To avoid the CHKDSK seeming to stall on 17% I suggest that you run it with the following command chkdsk /spotfix. CHKDSK is always running in the background and the spotfix command will only address any problems found by the background runs. It also has the advantage of showing a progress %age as it runs following a reboot.

I've been running AdAware since my Dell Tablet was new and had no problems, but at some point, I am assuming after an update I  ran into the drive error problem. I had run check disk and let action center "fix" the problem several times with no success. I read the above post and gave uninstalling AdAware a  try and voila, no hard disk problem. So in my case it must have been some conflict between Lavasoft AdAware  and an update from Microsoft. I will now have to try another antivirus and see if I have the same problem. 

Great Job Guys!

I have a Surface Pro Original and it's been awesome.  Then started the Action Center Message and scanning every time I rebooted.  Uninstalled AdAware 11 and checked for errors on the Hardrive and Memory card, and to steal from my buddy, Voila!  :-)  No action center message and no scanning on boot.

Thanks everyone!

-Droptini

I think it is great that some people are beginning to get the message that uninstalling Adaware may fix the problem. I would dearly love to know of a decent freeware pop-up stopper program to replace Adaware 11 (Internet Explorer in Windows 8.1 Pro just doesn't seem to do enough)..

That being said, it is obvious that in many cases a Microsoft Update is obviously conflicting with Adaware and causing the error we are all seeing, since uninstalling Adaware makes the error go away. Does no one else find it disturbing that two companies as pervasive as Microsoft and Lavasoft are either oblivious to the problem, or unwilling to talk to one another? They should be working together trying to figure out what is causing the error/conflict, not relying on us to fend for ourselves.

Oops - one other thing that happened about the same time as the update is the cause.  I connected a portable hard disk drive to the system.  It was the cause of the issue (still confused as to message saying reboot will fix issue).  My problem turned out to be a corrupt Recycle Bin.  Fixing it, removed the Action Center item.

I found this by running a check against each drive on the system (Properties - Tools - Error Checking Check - Scan Drive).

Worked like a charm!

I was having issue on Win Server 2012 R2 and it turned out to be a 2TB external drive. Cheers!

Hi all,

I recently used the error checking tool on my internal hard drive on my laptop. It found errors and told me to reboot. Now everytime I boot my pc a message in the action center pops up saying "Restart to repair drive errors", and no matter how many times I try, it still tells me there are drive errors.

I can't seem to find any more details on the exact errors. I run Windows 8 Pro. Can anyone help me or point me in the right direction?

EDIT: Running Chkdsk from the command promt returns a similar error, albeit a little more wordy: "Chkdsk cannot run because the volume [the C: drive, the one that has errors -RF] in in use by another process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts?" Replying <y> and rebooting, gives the same errors: the action center still tells me to reboot, and Chkdsk returns the same message as before.

I also tried running sfc, just for good measure. The log created (CBS.log) shows several errors at the bottom, seemingly all pertaining to autochk.exe, in some way or another.

I wonder if this may have been caused by running drive optimization and stopping prematurely (in order to reboot for the error checking utility).

check out this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfKP92i1Sp4

hope it works for you :)

Me too having the same issue. My secueity and maintenance under control panel continously show the above error.  Please tell me how to solve it.  I tried almost all thing found on the internet but still no use..

Me too having the same issue. My secueity and maintenance under control panel continously show the above error.  Please tell me how to solve it.  I tried almost all thing found on the internet but still no use.. 

Not to sound like a broken record, but are you using Lavasoft Adaware, and if so, have you tried uninstalling it and rebooting? Also, check to see what version of Adaware it is. A more recent version will likely fix the problem if uninstalling your current version works. I use Ad-Aware Free Version 11.12.945.9202 and it also conflicts with AVG Antivirus Free, so only the most rudimentary functions can be used. It tells you this when you install it.

This thread has been going for over two years, and I can't believe this problem is still happening. What version of Windows are you running? Windows 10, 8.1, 7, Vista? You might need to do some upgrades or updates.