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3 computers now where chkdsk was automatically started
Over the past two weeks I have been seeing some weird behavior on my home computers.
First my primary computer started to act up (slow boots, freezing, and auto-start of windows recovery services, etc., some issues found running dism and chkdsk that wouldn't fix). It seemed the hard drive was going bad, so I bought a SSD. I installed a clean version of Win7 Pro x64. Reloaded everything over the weekend. Everything seemed to be working well. Last night I ran the windows backup (backed up image of C: to drive D:. The program said it finished but this morning there is a warning (the taskbar "notification flag") that said the process failed and I should run "chkdsk /r". So I am running it now on drive D: and it seems to be taking for ever. It's now on step 4 of 5 (it is at 10% on file 76 of 13,xxx). It's taking a few minutes just to go from file 50 to 76. Hopefully it will be finished when I get home tonight.
Then my second (media server) computer went into an automatic "chkdsk" mode the other day. It scanned the hard drive (made a fix I think) and all seems okay.
This morning my third computer (wife's) was acting up. First it was very slow starting/browsing internet, then the computer froze (ctrl+alt+del won't work). When I restarted it up, the automatic Chkdsk scan started. Its at about 22% now.
Coincidence?
I an running Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes Premium. Nothing was reported by either.