SFC /scannow unable to complete!

[Stradigos]

My Device Manager says it's a Toshiba MK1237GSX ATA Device. I was on Toshiba's website noodling around, but it doesn't seem like they have anything.

 

[Stradigos]

Sorry for the triple post, but I thought I would close things off with a good report.

I did ran a chkdsk /R over night (man that took FOREVER) and here is the report I got back from the wininit event in the event viewer:

"Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is OS. A disk check has been scheduled. Windows will now check the disk. 226560 file records processed. 366 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. 2 EA records processed. 43 reparse records processed. 837877 index entries processed. 5 unindexed files processed. 226560 security descriptors processed. Cleaning up 52 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9. Cleaning up 52 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9. Cleaning up 52 unused security descriptors. 22298 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal... 36615912 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)... 226544 files processed. File data verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)... 9666912 free clusters processed. Free space verification is complete. CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap. Windows has made corrections to the file system. 104023032 KB total disk space. 64910840 KB in 186425 files. 85116 KB in 22299 indexes. 0 KB in bad sectors. 359428 KB in use by the system. 65536 KB occupied by the log file. 38667648 KB available on disk. 4096 bytes in each allocation unit. 26005758 total allocation units on disk. 9666912 allocation units available on disk."

In summary? No bad sectors... Yay =]

There are a few more errors showing up, but I will look into them. If I have any more questions, I'll make a new post about the specific problem. Thanks for all your help everyone! This is a great forum =]

 

[SCSIraidGURU]

I had similar problems with a 3Ware 9690SA controller and index errors. I would suggest run the disk utilities from the manufacturer on your hard drive. See if you have a bad drive.

 

[Stradigos]

I'm not sure what to use though. I have a Toshiba drive and it looks like there aren't any utilities for it. I'm worried about using a third party or another manufacturer's utilities on it unless you guys know it won't do anything funky.

 

[johngalt]

Don't - you never know what they might do.

You're right about Toshiba not providing diagnostic utilities: Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities (Storage) - TACKtech Corp.

However, how old is the system?

 

[Stradigos]

It's about a year old now. I carry my laptop around in my computer bag around school, and take good care of it. I don't walk around with it in my bag on, because it would scratch the hard drive obviously so I'm not stupid about it.

I usually put my laptop on hibernate, because it's quicker to turn on. But I wouldn't think that has anything to do with the driver errors. Not sure though, I'm just giving you tidbits of information hoping that you can make something from it, lol.

I use CCleaner on the registry once in a while, and it does a good job at keeping it clean. However I heard from one of you that I shouldn't use reg cleaners on vista... is this true? Should I turn of the UAC before I do so or something? Maybe that's why I had so many errors?

As far as drive utilities goes... I can't do anything more than chkdsk now then right? Since Toshiba doesn't have any?

Thanks again for all your help.

-Stradigos