"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
    2018-02-19T04:18:30+00:00

    & what for windows 10 pro same problem ?

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-12-24T02:40:04+00:00

    I have windows 10.  I am getting Windows errors after I boot up the machine and go into my Chrome Browser.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-12-04T00:31:43+00:00

    The way I run/ran Error Checking, I go to This PC, right click my C drive, click Properties, click Tools then Error Checking.  I normally get, the volume is in use and it will run following a restart.  I Restart the Laptop and see that the scan is about to start giving a few seconds to by pass.  I do nothing, you see the % of completion...it gets to 100% and goes to Windows.  No report, nothing to click on that displays view report, etc

    Does window capture the Error correcting report and store it in a file that is user accessible?  Or, am I running Error Checking incorrectly and that is the reason I see nothing to view a report of findings/results?

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