Question Proper HDD handling

[Tennobyte]

Hi there.

I've recently got unknown message from windows out of nowhere
"Restart PC to fix drive problems" - It was on different language, that's my translation.

Drive SMART isn't faulty and "good".

What does that mean? How to properly check drive for errors? I've tried using chkdsk but I have no clue how to understand it's output.

I did chkdsk D: /f /r /x And now sentenced to wait 8 hrs for full scan 🥀

 

[evermorex76]

Edit: nothing I said was right because I misread. If SMART is good, then the drive is fine, and as @geofelt said it was probably a scam message, popping up in your web browser. Check Windows Event Viewer. If there's no message there in System events, then it wasn't a Windows message.

 

[geofelt]

In a different language, It might be a scam.

 

[Tennobyte]

Edit: nothing I said was right because I misread. If SMART is good, then the drive is fine, and as @geofelt said it was probably a scam message, popping up in your web browser. Check Windows Event Viewer. If there's no message there in System events, then it wasn't a Windows message.

You didn't get it right, my system language is not english, and it's official message from windows OS.

 

[Tennobyte]

Also, there's no real issues to be honest, just a few files corrupted for some reason, chkdsk D: /f fixed them

 

[evermorex76]

You didn't get it right, my system language is not english, and it's official message from windows OS.

If it truly was a system message, then it will be shown in Event Viewer along with other messages that indicate what the real problem was. It may truly just have been that NTFS corruption was found and it wanted to run a boot-time chkdsk, but usually there is a CAUSE for that to happen, and it doesn't just happen suddenly like that. Usually it will happen when you do something like plugging in a USB drive, because that's when Windows performs a filesystem check. Windows does the same thing when you first boot it up; event viewer will have events logged saying "Volume XXXX is healthy. No action is needed." It's rare for errors to suddenly happen during normal operation unless some other event occurred, like a power fluctuation or an actual fault in the drive. Check for events from the source "Ntfs (Microsoft-Windows-Ntfs)", and then look at other events at that time.