Help with CHKDSK Errors After Restarting my Computer
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CuriousCat42
Hey everyone! I've been encountering a message telling me to restart my computer to repair drive errors, which is pretty random. About two months ago, I faced a couple of blue screens, but things seemed fine afterwards—until now. Restarting resolves the issue temporarily, but it pops up again after a week or two. I tried running CHKDSK but only Stage 2 reported errors. To give you some context, I'm using a Samsung 980 SSD NVME for my C drive, and Samsung Magician says the health is good. Here's the log from my CHKDSK attempt:
```
C:WindowsSystem32>chkdsk C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
WARNING! /F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.
Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
1297408 file records processed.
File verification completed.
...
Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
Error detected in index $I30 for file 17E00.
...
Errors found. CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode.
```
What should I do next? Is this something serious to worry about? Everything seems to work fine, and I can still play games, but I'm a bit anxious about possible corruption down the line.
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Sounds like you might be running CHKDSK in read-only mode, which only checks for issues but doesn’t fix them. Try running `chkdsk c: /f` to actually repair file system errors, or `chkdsk c: /f /r` to check for bad sectors on your drive (just a heads up, that one might take a while). You’ll need to reboot your computer after running the command to let it execute properly. That should sort things out!
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CuriousCat42: Thanks for the tip! I did run the `/f` and `/r` options the first time, and after the reboot, I saw it scanning and repairing things. No errors popped up later, but I checked again, and it still reports errors. Any idea why? My SSD is pretty new!