BSoD playing certain games, various error codes (usually 0x03b)

Yeah, the index problem isn't that significant, although I don't like it when I see that.

The free space marked as allocated is more significant.

So, what does that mean, practically speaking?

msgerbs said:

So, what does that mean, practically speaking?

File system issues on that volume. I'd give this a run first:

F5ing said:

Of course it could. Now that you mention that, I'm thinking you might want to avoid another chkdsk run for the time being, unless you already have all of your data backed up somewhere else. Instead I'd start with a quick check of that drive by using something like CrystalDiskInfo: CrystalDiskInfo5_1_0.zip. Post a screenshot...

There may not be anything wrong at all. But it's a quick way to see what the HDD's SMART knows about the health of the drive. If it all looks good, then run another chkdsk to see if all errors have been cleaned up.

DiskInfo says the drive status is good. Attached is a screenshot of the results. Also attached is an example of what Drive Meter looks like whenever I start my computer. (The blue is disk utilization. You can see it hitting 100% for periods of 30 seconds or more) That screenshot was taken about 3 minutes hitting the desktop. Shortly after that, the disk usage subsided. Is it a normal thing to see so much 100% disk utilization for that long after startup? At the time I took that screenshot, desktop icons were just finishing up loading (Granted I do have a lot of them, and several sizable files on my desktop).

Doing anything with windows updates also seems to drive disk utilization to crippling levels for no apparent reason. Even downloading updates in the background can cause problems.

CrystalDisk looks good. Drive appears healthy. Go ahead and run another chkdsk to see if the previous run cleaned everything up.

You can use Resource Monitor to check disk access. It'll tell you what files are being read/written to.

chkdsk results:

Code:

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.                         

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
  534016 file records processed.                                          File verification completed.
  883 large file records processed.                                      0 bad file records processed.                                        2 EA records processed.                                              60 reparse records processed.                                       CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
  670988 index entries processed.                                         Index verification completed.
  0 unindexed files scanned.                                           0 unindexed files recovered.                                       CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
  534016 file SDs/SIDs processed.                                         Cleaning up 82 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 82 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 82 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
  68487 data files processed.                                            CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
  36616184 USN bytes processed.                                             Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
  534000 files processed.                                                 File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
  159405105 free clusters processed.                                         Free space verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

 976657407 KB total disk space.
 338139632 KB in 417519 files.
    229848 KB in 68488 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
    667503 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
 637620424 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
 244164351 total allocation units on disk.
 159405106 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 26 08 00 7e 6a 07 00 49 3e 0d 00 00 00 00 00  .&..~j..I>......
36 03 00 00 3c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  6...<...........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

Probably because of a BSOD or 5.