Uh oh my computer might be deleting my hard drive files?
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To make a long story short my computers been having some problems lately and I've been too busy to take it to the shop. It was acting temperamental just now so I did a couple of manual reboots since that has fixed it sometimes in the past. When I turned it on just now I got some worrisome message. I turned the computer off quickly so I wasn't able to write all of it down, but it said something like "NTFS is going to delete corrupt files on drive C:/, it also mentioned something called "CHKDSK". Sorry I can't be more descriptive but I wanted to turn it off quickly since it said it was already 2% done.
I'm not sure if I should turn it back on or what. Anyone have any idea what to do? Thanks in advance
anything chkdsk would ever delete would be broken files that are unrecoverable, run chkdsk and let it finish
[QUOTE=Shadaez;39011974]anything chkdsk would ever delete would be broken files that are unrecoverable, run chkdsk and let it finish[/QUOTE]
Ok, but this is my fault right? I have no idea what files it's deleting but whatever they are I feel like I must have caused it by doing the reboots?
If you reboot your computer with out actually letting it shutdown, IE a power outage, files in memory could be in the middle of a write to the hard disk and become partial or incomplete files. Improper shutdowns can result in corrupt files which just lead to more corruption, or other problems. NTFS is pretty resilient and can generally recover most damaged files. Chkdsk is just correcting indexes, fixing damaged files and deleting partials. Basically putting everything back to normal. The time to worry is when Chkdsk is unable to fix problems.
Ok thanks thats good to know
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