"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
    2014-04-17T21:07:22+00:00

    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.

      I have never had a problem with AdAware until now but this takes me back to the Norton Disk Doctor who should have been sued for malpractice - I uninstalled AdAware and the problem persisted for a couple days and then it just ceased - and has not recurred despite several reboots.  My laptop is now booting as quickly as it did when new - so AdAware must have been partially at fault.

    Of course now every time I wake up the laptop from sleep I get a bogus message that "computer had unknown error and had to be rebooted" and asks me if I want to send a report to MS - since it is just as quick to click yes as no, I send the report.

    I installed IObit - the registry cleaner is NOT free - you have to pay for the upgrade for that, so I was sort of put off by the person that posted that there was a free version when their post was misleading... you need to be more honest in your posts.  However, it looks like the free stuff included in IObit is useful so I left it installed for the time being.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-04-17T16:11:45+00:00

    I did a check on a USB drive and I uninstalled all instances of Ad-Aware.

    Touch wood the problem seems gone for me too. Thanks everyone.

    :)

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-04-14T08:52:09+00:00

    Yes, uninstalling AdAware solves this!

    Finally after days seeking for a fix. I accidentally fixed this by uninstalling a few unnecessary programs from my laptop.  One of those is AdAware. Finally I've just found that error checking during boot is gone. No more that awkward restart message from action center.

    edit: sorry, it's not

    after leaving my laptop for a while, it does an auto deflag and show up that restart message again oh damn

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  4. 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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  5. 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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