"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
    2014-04-13T15:13:48+00:00

    You could well be right about AdAware causing the problem - I am presently running AdAware 11 and I have the same drive status warning (now disabled as no problem found using chkdsk /spotfix).

     I was hoping that this would be the easy solution - but it was not.  I uninstalled AdAware, problem persists.

    Worse - when I upgraded from Windows 8 to 8.1, the false error doubled - now I get TWO of them and have to wait EVERY TIME while booting for the laptop to perform the check.  The problem went from sporadic to constant.

    The easy thing would have been if Microsoft was not stingy in providing DVDs with the purchase of the OS instead of this BS they do with Dell and other manufacturers...

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-04-13T15:39:56+00:00

    You could well be right about AdAware causing the problem - I am presently running AdAware 11 and I have the same drive status warning (now disabled as no problem found using chkdsk /spotfix).

     I was hoping that this would be the easy solution - but it was not.  I uninstalled AdAware, problem persists.

    Worse - when I upgraded from Windows 8 to 8.1, the false error doubled - now I get TWO of them and have to wait EVERY TIME while booting for the laptop to perform the check.  The problem went from sporadic to constant.

    The easy thing would have been if Microsoft was not stingy in providing DVDs with the purchase of the OS instead of this BS they do with Dell and other manufacturers...

    Did you use a third party uninstaller to remove AdAware? Like IObit uninstaller - letting it do a find the last bit (I forget the term used) removal. Then do a registry clean up to get rid of every last trace of AdAware. This program has caused me all sorts of problems - it stopped me accessing simple web sites, it deleted mail (including one sent by Lavasoft!!) - I'm not a great fan.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-04-13T17:12:22+00:00

    I was able to remove AdAware just using the normal add remove programs feature. This has also been a problem on my son's Windows 8.1 Dell laptop and removing AdAware on it fixed it also. Again I don't know what kind of conflict is occurring but it is obvious something is wrong.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-04-13T17:27:28+00:00

    I was able to remove AdAware just using the normal add remove programs feature. This has also been a problem on my son's Windows 8.1 Dell laptop and removing AdAware on it fixed it also. Again I don't know what kind of conflict is occurring but it is obvious something is wrong.

    Yes - but, and it's a big BUT, this will not remove every last trace of the program which could still be lurking somewhere - at a minimum I would run a clean registry program - try "Advanced System Care" free version. I'm prepared to bet (not a lot being a Scot!) that there will be program remnants there. Good luck

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-04-14T02:48:22+00:00

    Yep this appeared to be the issue for myself as well. Ad-Aware 11 and the latest Windows updates. Uninstalled Ad-Aware and presto alert gone.

    Although I had to be connected via wifi as opposed to through the work proxy for it to uninstall correctly.

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