CHKDSK Results?

Hi,

Performed a Boot time CHDSK on my old Sony Vaio, (which was lying and a bit dusty need to be serviced too not been used for 6 odd months) and giving occasional black browser page errors.

Following are the results, could yoy care to interpret them.

Thanks!



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)...
125696 file records processed.
File verification completed.
418 large file records processed.
0 bad file records processed.
2 EA records processed.
44 reparse records processed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
162110 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned.
0 unindexed files recovered.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
125696 file SDs/SIDs processed.
Cleaning up 958 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 958 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 958 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
18208 data files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
35850616 USN bytes processed.
Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
125680 files processed.
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
10202041 free clusters processed.
Free space verification is complete.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

63897599 KB total disk space.
22811592 KB in 73643 files.
46684 KB in 18209 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
231155 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
40808168 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
15974399 total allocation units on disk.
10202042 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 eb 01 00 d7 66 01 00 7a a8 02 00 00 00 00 00 .....f..z.......
ec 00 00 00 2c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....,...........
e8 8d 38 00 50 01 37 00 20 1a 37 00 00 00 37 00 ..8.P.7. .7...7.

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.
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Looks OK to me. No bad sectors found, it cleaned up a few things as it does when I run it.

Are you having any trouble with the disk?

This is what I was getting as shown in the screen shot, but after running CHKDSK no more......did that help solve the issue?

Emptied Prefetch using CCleaner too.

Thanks.

Never realized CHKDSK was so important. Issues that i was getting were on a restored image and after CHKDSK they are gone and the machine is more crisp and responsive.

Should such system maintenance procedures as CHDSK, Disk Defrag etc be run monthly?

Thanks again.

I set Windows defrag to run on an automated schedule, once per week. I never even notice if it is running and my fragmentation level is usually 0 and never above 3%.

I rarely run chkdsk. Only once a year or so, just for information purposes to see what it turns up. But you should pay attention to some of the SMART details and keep the disk cleaned up with built in Disk Cleanup or CCleaner. Get an idea of the drive's ordinary operating temps.

You can also take a look at the drive manufacturer's downloadable tools, but you probably wouldn't run them if you weren't having significant issues.

Thanks again.