scanning and repairing window 10

[RachokingzOz]

Every time i start my window i get this scanning and repairing drive. Could it be that i have too many partition?

 

[johnbl]

Windows has a software variable that is used to indicate that a shutdown completed. if shutdown does not complete before the power goes out then the next time the system is run, the system will see that the previous shutdown did not complete and it will run diagnostics on all of your drives when you turn on the system.

so you can find out why the shutdown did not complete by setting a registry flag for verbose status messages:
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/enable-verbose-status-message-windows
it will display what windows is waiting for on each shutdown.
most of the time it is going to be a bug in the bios power management functions and all you will need to do is update the BIOS, and maybe the motherboard drivers and all will work well.

failing that fix, you have to start cmd.exe as an admin (windows key+x, then type A)
and run
powercfg.exe /energy
(this will generate a report that will indicate what power problems it finds on your machine)
generally the fix is to update the BIOS and motherboard drivers anyway.


generally this would not be a problem with your partitions unless you are using a 3rd party partition software or 3rd party cache software. (or have a bug in the firmware of a SSD or cache circuit in a HDD)

Every time i start my window i get this scanning and repairing drive. Could it be that i have too many partition?

 

[RachokingzOz]

Windows has a software variable that is used to indicate that a shutdown completed. if shutdown does not complete before the power goes out then the next time the system is run, the system will see that the previous shutdown did not complete and it will run diagnostics on all of your drives when you turn on the system.

so you can find out why the shutdown did not complete by setting a registry flag for verbose status messages:
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/enable-verbose-status-message-windows
it will display what windows is waiting for on each shutdown.
most of the time it is going to be a bug in the bios power management functions and all you will need to do is update the BIOS, and maybe the motherboard drivers and all will work well.

failing that fix, you have to start cmd.exe as an admin (windows key+x, then type A)
and run
powercfg.exe /energy
(this will generate a report that will indicate what power problems it finds on your machine)
generally the fix is to update the BIOS and motherboard drivers anyway.


generally this would not be a problem with your partitions unless you are using a 3rd party partition software or 3rd party cache software. (or have a bug in the firmware of a SSD or cache circuit in a HDD)

Every time i start my window i get this scanning and repairing drive. Could it be that i have too many partition?

What do you mean by having a bug in the firmware of a SSD or cache circuit in a HDD? because recently i was trying to clone the OS from HDD to SSD, but it didn't work, so i took out my SSD. Once i took SSD out my HDD doesn't boot up and it brings me to like a window page where you can like repair or something( It doesn't boot to my window) Then i click like factory reset or something similar. It took like at least 8 hours before my HDD even boot up to a os which was window 8.1 by default when i got it from Best Buy. I am not really sure what i did with my computer >.<

 

[RachokingzOz]

Windows has a software variable that is used to indicate that a shutdown completed. if shutdown does not complete before the power goes out then the next time the system is run, the system will see that the previous shutdown did not complete and it will run diagnostics on all of your drives when you turn on the system.

so you can find out why the shutdown did not complete by setting a registry flag for verbose status messages:
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/enable-verbose-status-message-windows
it will display what windows is waiting for on each shutdown.
most of the time it is going to be a bug in the bios power management functions and all you will need to do is update the BIOS, and maybe the motherboard drivers and all will work well.

failing that fix, you have to start cmd.exe as an admin (windows key+x, then type A)
and run
powercfg.exe /energy
(this will generate a report that will indicate what power problems it finds on your machine)
generally the fix is to update the BIOS and motherboard drivers anyway.


generally this would not be a problem with your partitions unless you are using a 3rd party partition software or 3rd party cache software. (or have a bug in the firmware of a SSD or cache circuit in a HDD)

Every time i start my window i get this scanning and repairing drive. Could it be that i have too many partition?

Can it be caused by the allocated space on my HDD?

 

[johnbl]

things can get messy when you add a drive.
the first hard drive would have had a reserved partition that does not have a drive letter, then a windows partition with a c: drive letter assignment.

the new ssd drive would also look just like the hard drive. The problem is when both of them are active at the same time, windows will re assign the drive letters so they don't conflict. it does not know which drive you wanted so it just goes by which drive the system hardware sees first and assigns the drive letters. if it gets it wrong then your system will not boot.

normally you put the drive you want to boot from in the PC, then boot a repair disk and get to a command prompt and run the following commands:
bootrec.exe /fixmbr
bootrec.exe /fixboot
bootrec.exe /ScanOs
bootrec.exe /RebuildBcd

that should get your SSD drive to boot. Now you can power up windows, then plug in the hard drive while windows is running and go do the disk properties of the new disk and assign drive letters on the disk so they do not conflict with the first SSD. Then do a shutdown and see if you can reboot.

you could also delete the reserved partition from the Hard disk drive and then the drive would become a data drive rather than a boot drive.

there are otherways to fix this but most of them involve booting on a repair disk and running a cmd.exe to get to the windows utilities.
(diskpart.exe used to reassign drive letters)

 

[Rocky Bennett]

At one time I had 14 different operating systems installed on this PC, all set up individually with different partitions and boot managers. Too many partitions is never a problem.

 

[Rocky Bennett]

Just do a clean install and delete all of your partitions and boot mangers and reinstall Windows again from scratch.

 

[johnbl]

yep, you can do that until windows update installs a new OEM storage driver and the driver driver triggers reassignment of drive letters. I just looked an old dell system with a 2012 bios version, windows update update the intel raid driver and it does not work with the old BIOS version. The end result was the drive letters get reassigned on each boot of windows until the BIOS was updated. Oh, the person forgot the BIOS password and they have to go to dell and pay $60 to have the password removed before they can update the BIOS. Really not fun.

At one time I had 14 different operating systems installed on this PC, all set up individually with different partitions and boot managers. Too many partitions is never a problem.

 

[RachokingzOz]

Well i returned the SDD already 🙁. After i returned it my HDD still didn't boot it keeps going to like a window "safe mode" where it has trouble shooting and command prompt. I had to turn my pc on and off and try to boot on the flash drive, so i can reinstall os. Since i thought everything on it was gone. Then after like 6-7 hours of restarting the computer it finally boots to something. Which was window 8.1 since i sort of factory reset it( I had window 10). I finish installation and then just upgraded straight to window 10 with some Microsoft media tool with no product key. ( I don't remember everything exactly not sure if that will cause a problem) and do i need a empty flash drive to update the bios?

 

[RachokingzOz]

yep, you can do that until windows update installs a new OEM storage driver and the driver driver triggers reassignment of drive letters. I just looked an old dell system with a 2012 bios version, windows update update the intel raid driver and it does not work with the old BIOS version. The end result was the drive letters get reassigned on each boot of windows until the BIOS was updated. Oh, the person forgot the BIOS password and they have to go to dell and pay $60 to have the password removed before they can update the BIOS. Really not fun.

At one time I had 14 different operating systems installed on this PC, all set up individually with different partitions and boot managers. Too many partitions is never a problem.

I never had the scanning problem until i reinstall os. I think i have been using the same BIOS version.

 

[johnbl]

could be that you are using the default windows SATA driver rather than the one provided for your motherboard.
they have the same name but the microsoft version will just be a generic version provided by the OEM.

In the case of the Dell I looked at, it worked fine until microsoft update installed a new version of the intel storage driver and displaced the custom version that was on the machine. It wold have worked if the BIOS was updated to have its fixes for the raid driver. Basically, i guess intel removed the work around they had in the driver when they did the last round of releases on the assumption that 2012 bios versions would have been updated by now. dell had stopped updating the website for this machine last year so there was not a updated raid driver.

yep, you can do that until windows update installs a new OEM storage driver and the driver driver triggers reassignment of drive letters. I just looked an old dell system with a 2012 bios version, windows update update the intel raid driver and it does not work with the old BIOS version. The end result was the drive letters get reassigned on each boot of windows until the BIOS was updated. Oh, the person forgot the BIOS password and they have to go to dell and pay $60 to have the password removed before they can update the BIOS. Really not fun.

At one time I had 14 different operating systems installed on this PC, all set up individually with different partitions and boot managers. Too many partitions is never a problem.

I never had the scanning problem until i reinstall os. I think i have been using the same BIOS version.

 

[RachokingzOz]

could be that you are using the default windows SATA driver rather than the one provided for your motherboard.
they have the same name but the microsoft version will just be a generic version provided by the OEM.

In the case of the Dell I looked at, it worked fine until microsoft update installed a new version of the intel storage driver and displaced the custom version that was on the machine. It wold have worked if the BIOS was updated to have its fixes for the raid driver. Basically, i guess intel removed the work around they had in the driver when they did the last round of releases on the assumption that 2012 bios versions would have been updated by now. dell had stopped updating the website for this machine last year so there was not a updated raid driver.

yep, you can do that until windows update installs a new OEM storage driver and the driver driver triggers reassignment of drive letters. I just looked an old dell system with a 2012 bios version, windows update update the intel raid driver and it does not work with the old BIOS version. The end result was the drive letters get reassigned on each boot of windows until the BIOS was updated. Oh, the person forgot the BIOS password and they have to go to dell and pay $60 to have the password removed before they can update the BIOS. Really not fun.

At one time I had 14 different operating systems installed on this PC, all set up individually with different partitions and boot managers. Too many partitions is never a problem.

I never had the scanning problem until i reinstall os. I think i have been using the same BIOS version.

So i should just update the BIOS and see what happens right?

 

[RachokingzOz]

I did the powercfg.exe/energy scan at the cmd and it says 9 errors and 8 warnings and 34 informational

 

[johnbl]

you can look at the report and see what problems were reported.
you should be able to just point your browser at the report to view it

it should be located at c:\windows\system32\energy-report.html

it is pretty common to have errors, Microsoft update will disable features if they feel that it is a bug in motherboard. I think you end up having to update the BIOS, then re enable the features.

 

[RachokingzOz]

I got the report, but i have zero idea on what i am reading. Was i suppose to open the report on chrome?

 

[Rocky Bennett]

I got the report, but i have zero idea on what i am reading. Was i suppose to open the report on chrome?

I think file explorer opens that report.

 

[RachokingzOz]

file:///C:/Windows/System32/energy-report.html Can you guys open that?

 

[Rocky Bennett]

Drag the file to your desktop and open the file with Internet Explorer;

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/unable-to-open-cwindowssystem32energy-reporthtml/057f8fb4-4fd7-4c75-ae16-f7bc7ba44eb0

 

[RachokingzOz]

C:\Users\Jinhuichoy\Desktop\energy-report.html

 

[Rocky Bennett]

This will work for you in Windows 10. Before you do this, go into your settings and make sure that Internet Explorer is set as your default browser;

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/4569-power-efficiency-diagnostics-report.html

 

[RachokingzOz]

This will work for you in Windows 10. Before you do this, go into your settings and make sure that Internet Explorer is set as your default browser;

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/4569-power-efficiency-diagnostics-report.html

I can view the report myself, but i can't paste the report to you guys.

 

[RachokingzOz]

Analysis Results
Errors
Power Policy😛ower Plan Personality is High Performance (Plugged In)
The current power plan personality is High Performance when the system is plugged in.
Power Policy😀isplay timeout disabled (Plugged In)
The display is not configured to turn off after a period of inactivity.
Power Policy:Sleep timeout is disabled (Plugged In)
The computer is not configured to automatically sleep after a period of inactivity.
Power Policy:Minimum processor performance state is 100% (Plugged In)
The processor is not configured to automatically reduce power consumption based on activity.
Power Policy😛CI Express ASPM is disabled (Plugged In)
The current power policy for PCI Express Active State Power Management (ASPM) is configured to Off.
USB Suspend:USB Device not Entering Selective Suspend
This device did not enter the USB Selective Suspend state. Processor power management may be prevented when this USB device is not in the Selective Suspend state. Note that this issue will not prevent the system from sleeping.
Device Name
USB Composite Device
Host Controller ID
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_A12F
Host Controller Location
PCI bus 0, device 20, function 0
Device ID
USB\VID_04D9&PID_A0EA
Port Path
6
USB Suspend:USB Device not Entering Selective Suspend
This device did not enter the USB Selective Suspend state. Processor power management may be prevented when this USB device is not in the Selective Suspend state. Note that this issue will not prevent the system from sleeping.
Device Name
USB Composite Device
Host Controller ID
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_A12F
Host Controller Location
PCI bus 0, device 20, function 0
Device ID
USB\VID_1532&PID_0203
Port Path
5
CPU Utilization😛rocessor utilization is high
The average processor utilization during the trace was high. The system will consume less power when the average processor utilization is very low. Review processor utilization for individual processes to determine which applications and services contribute the most to total processor utilization.
Average Utilization (%)
4.57
Platform Power Management Capabilities😛CI Express Active-State Power Management (ASPM) Disabled
PCI Express Active-State Power Management (ASPM) has been disabled due to a known incompatibility with the hardware in this computer.
Warnings
Platform Timer Resolution😛latform Timer Resolution
The default platform timer resolution is 15.6ms (15625000ns) and should be used whenever the system is idle. If the timer resolution is increased, processor power management technologies may not be effective. The timer resolution may be increased due to multimedia playback or graphical animations.
Current Timer Resolution (100ns units)
10026
Maximum Timer Period (100ns units)
156250
Platform Timer Resolution:Outstanding Timer Request
A program or service has requested a timer resolution smaller than the platform maximum timer resolution.
Requested Period
10000
Requesting Process ID
5624
Requesting Process Path
\Device\HarddiskVolume4\Program Files (x86)\Razer\Synapse\RzSynapse.exe
Power Policy😀im timeout is long (Plugged In)
The display is configured to automatically dim after longer than 10 minutes.
Timeout (seconds)
885
CPU Utilization:Individual process with significant processor utilization.
This process is responsible for a significant portion of the total processor utilization recorded during the trace.
Process Name
System
PID
4
Average Utilization (%)
0.53
Module
Average Module Utilization (%)
\SystemRoot\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
0.29
\SystemRoot\system32\drivers\Wdf01000.sys
0.09
\SystemRoot\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_3f929cc119e3b994\nvlddmkm.sys
0.05
CPU Utilization:Individual process with significant processor utilization.
This process is responsible for a significant portion of the total processor utilization recorded during the trace.
Process Name
Steam.exe
PID
6992
Average Utilization (%)
0.51
Module
Average Module Utilization (%)
\SystemRoot\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
0.16
\Device\HarddiskVolume4\Program Files (x86)\Steam\bin\vgui2_s.dll
0.09
\Device\HarddiskVolume4\Program Files (x86)\Steam\bin\friendsui.dll
0.04
CPU Utilization:Individual process with significant processor utilization.
This process is responsible for a significant portion of the total processor utilization recorded during the trace.
Process Name
dwm.exe
PID
940
Average Utilization (%)
0.22
Module
Average Module Utilization (%)
\SystemRoot\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
0.09
\Device\HarddiskVolume4\Windows\System32\dwmcore.dll
0.02
\Device\HarddiskVolume4\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_3f929cc119e3b994\nvwgf2umx.dll
0.02
CPU Utilization:Individual process with significant processor utilization.
This process is responsible for a significant portion of the total processor utilization recorded during the trace.
Process Name
chrome.exe
PID
6016
Average Utilization (%)
0.21
Module
Average Module Utilization (%)
\Device\HarddiskVolume4\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\55.0.2883.87\chrome_child.dll
0.16
\Device\HarddiskVolume4\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll
0.02
\SystemRoot\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
0.01
Information
Platform Timer Resolution:Timer Request Stack
The stack of modules responsible for the lowest platform timer setting in this process.
Requested Period
10000
Requesting Process ID
5624
Requesting Process Path
\Device\HarddiskVolume4\Program Files (x86)\Razer\Synapse\RzSynapse.exe
Calling Module Stack
\Device\HarddiskVolume4\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll

\Device\HarddiskVolume4\Windows\SysWOW64\kernel32.dll

\Device\HarddiskVolume4\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\WPF\wpfgfx_v0400.dll

\Device\HarddiskVolume4\Windows\SysWOW64\kernel32.dll

\Device\HarddiskVolume4\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll
Power Policy:Active Power Plan
The current power plan in use
Plan Name
OEM High Performance
Plan GUID
{8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c}
Power Policy😛ower Plan Personality (Plugged In)
The personality of the current power plan when the system is plugged in.
Personality
High Performance
Power Policy:802.11 Radio Power Policy is Maximum Performance (Plugged In)
The current power policy for 802.11-compatible wireless network adapters is not configured to use low-power modes.
Power Policy:Video quality (Plugged In)
Enables Windows Media Player to optimize for quality or power savings when playing video.
Quality Mode
Optimize for Video Quality
System Availability Requests:Analysis Success
Analysis was successful. No energy efficiency problems were found. No information was returned.
Battery:Analysis Success
Analysis was successful. No energy efficiency problems were found. No information was returned.
Platform Power Management Capabilities:Supported Sleep States
Sleep states allow the computer to enter low-power modes after a period of inactivity. The S3 sleep state is the default sleep state for Windows platforms. The S3 sleep state consumes only enough power to preserve memory contents and allow the computer to resume working quickly. Very few platforms support the S1 or S2 Sleep states.
S1 Sleep Supported
false
S2 Sleep Supported
false
S3 Sleep Supported
true
S4 Sleep Supported
true
Platform Power Management Capabilities:Connected Standby Support
Connected standby allows the computer to enter a low-power mode in which it is always on and connected. If supported, connected standby is used instead of system sleep states.
Connected Standby Supported
false
Platform Power Management Capabilities😛rocessor Power Management Capabilities
Effective processor power management enables the computer to automatically balance performance and energy consumption.
Group
0
Index
0
Idle State Count
2
Idle State Type
ACPI Idle (C) States
Nominal Frequency (MHz)
3504
Maximum Performance Percentage
111
Lowest Performance Percentage
45
Lowest Throttle Percentage
2
Performance Controls Type
ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control
Platform Power Management Capabilities😛rocessor Power Management Capabilities
Effective processor power management enables the computer to automatically balance performance and energy consumption.
Group
0
Index
1
Idle State Count
2
Idle State Type
ACPI Idle (C) States
Nominal Frequency (MHz)
3504
Maximum Performance Percentage
111
Lowest Performance Percentage
45
Lowest Throttle Percentage
2
Performance Controls Type
ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control
Platform Power Management Capabilities😛rocessor Power Management Capabilities
Effective processor power management enables the computer to automatically balance performance and energy consumption.
Group
0
Index
2
Idle State Count
2
Idle State Type
ACPI Idle (C) States
Nominal Frequency (MHz)
3504
Maximum Performance Percentage
111
Lowest Performance Percentage
45
Lowest Throttle Percentage
2
Performance Controls Type
ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control
Platform Power Management Capabilities😛rocessor Power Management Capabilities
Effective processor power management enables the computer to automatically balance performance and energy consumption.
Group
0
Index
3
Idle State Count
2
Idle State Type
ACPI Idle (C) States
Nominal Frequency (MHz)
3504
Maximum Performance Percentage
111
Lowest Performance Percentage
45
Lowest Throttle Percentage
2
Performance Controls Type
ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control
Device Drivers:Analysis Success

 

[RachokingzOz]

I hope you guys can read it.

 

[RachokingzOz]

I have the Z170A PC MATE mobo. The video that i checked on Youtube showed 3 files, but when i download mine it only shows two files.

 

[RachokingzOz]

things can get messy when you add a drive.
the first hard drive would have had a reserved partition that does not have a drive letter, then a windows partition with a c: drive letter assignment.

the new ssd drive would also look just like the hard drive. The problem is when both of them are active at the same time, windows will re assign the drive letters so they don't conflict. it does not know which drive you wanted so it just goes by which drive the system hardware sees first and assigns the drive letters. if it gets it wrong then your system will not boot.

normally you put the drive you want to boot from in the PC, then boot a repair disk and get to a command prompt and run the following commands:
bootrec.exe /fixmbr
bootrec.exe /fixboot
bootrec.exe /ScanOs
bootrec.exe /RebuildBcd

that should get your SSD drive to boot. Now you can power up windows, then plug in the hard drive while windows is running and go do the disk properties of the new disk and assign drive letters on the disk so they do not conflict with the first SSD. Then do a shutdown and see if you can reboot.

you could also delete the reserved partition from the Hard disk drive and then the drive would become a data drive rather than a boot drive.

there are otherways to fix this but most of them involve booting on a repair disk and running a cmd.exe to get to the windows utilities.
(diskpart.exe used to reassign drive letters)

Alright i install the os onto the ssd now, and my hdd still has all the other program. Which i already formated at the This PC. Still when i start the pc it has the scan and repair. It must be a bios problem right?