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

Anonymous
2012-11-21T08:24:05+00:00

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).

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-11-27T17:34:40+00:00

    I figured out that it was being caused by a faulty sync partnership - which is another rat's nest of unhelpful information from the overlords of computing.

    Disabling sync center / unmapping network drives seems to be the fix for me

    Again, in my view this isn't about chkdsk,, sync center, or anything - its about bad UX design (which is all about creating and managing user expectations). Your stupid little balloon told me restarting would fix the problem, and it does NOTHING. the problem is more complex than restarting, obviously.

    If you had said, "there is a problem with a drive, and it may be really complicated to fix" I would have had no problem with that. I would have waited until I had 2 hours to spare to delve into it and known going in that it was likely to be complicated, obscure, and frustrating. Instead you set me up with the expectation that this would be easy and then utterly failed to meet that expectation.

    Please forward this to your UX team with the headline "You should be ashamed of yourselves"

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-11-27T18:42:04+00:00

    Could it be that your command is WRONG? It is NOT chkfix /spotfix but rather is chkdsk /spotfix

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-11-27T20:55:03+00:00

    Sorry, just a senior moment. The command actually typed was CHKDSK. It was recognized by the OS and said the disk was already in use. The OS then asked if I wanted to execute the commands on boot - reply was YES.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-12-26T01:53:29+00:00

    hi everyone, sorry to barge in like this, first time poster here having the same issue and having no luck figuring out why. my kingston ssd now v3 also behaves this way on win8.1. the message center error also shows this repair thinggy. even if i boot with another drive with win7 and the ssd as slave the boot process always says it needs to scan  the ssd but doesnt really detects anything wrong with it after the scan. so im trying to look for other factors such as faulty USB ports and conflicts with USB devices such as phones and tablets (i have some) which triggers the "restart to repair drive error" flag, in some cases where i forgot to safely remove them from devices... wish there would be some light to this issue as windows itself denies us specific data on why it is showing such problems

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-01-16T21:08:52+00:00

    Still no fix action on the "Restart to repair drive errors" issue?!?!?!?

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