Check Disk (chkdsk) - Read Event Viewer Log

Hello and welcome Pete well I have run the chkdsk with both the / f and /r switche on my SSD's with no ill effect mind you Shawn might have a different angle on that :)

Yes Pete look I have run the /r switch quite a few times on my SSD's and there has never been a problem that I know of. In fact I run sfc and chkdsk if I even suspect something has gone awry - mind you I also mostly use the Samsung brand and of course the Magician (first) along with the usual TRIM stuff etc.

Personally I have never read anything anywhere that says the chkdsk is bad for SSD's see this (and the notation from Microsoft - heavy stuff and other links )
windows 8 - The value of running CHKDSK on an SSD? - Super User

When right-clicking, "Find" is blanked out. Any other methods for Vista? I just paste the line in for my 7 machine.

UPDATE: Please ignore post. Found it in eventviewer by scrolling.

Brink,

Step 4 probably needs to change a bit:

In the left pane of Event Viewer,
double click on Windows Logs to expand it,
click on Application to select it
then right click on Application
and click on Find.

Your screenshot for step 4 shows that Application was selected before the right click was done.


If you do exactly as step 4 currently says, the center pane should be a list of the event logs and their sizes. Right clicking on Application without selecting it first should give you a context menu where "Find..." is greyed out.



This is what post #84 in your tut thread was talking about.
But it was this post that lead me to look closely at this tut.


In my testing...
...I followed step 4 in the tut exactly as written
...I saw that "Find..." was not enabled
...I selected Application...
...then right clicked on Application
...I saw that "Find..." was enabled.

Now I wanted a screenshot to post with "Find..." greyed out.
I repeated step 4 in the tut exactly as written...
...but now "Find..." was enabled
...and yet - selecting "Find..." failed to produce a search window.



It seems that once "Find..." has been painted as enabled, it will be painted that way on subsequent context menus. But "Find..." is still non-functional until Application is selected prior to right clicking on Application.



You can also see that "Refresh" has been added to the context menu for that second screenshot. "Refresh" is also shown in the context menu in the screenshot under step 4 of this tut. Basically, you can never repeat the context menu shown in my first screenshot once you have created the context menu shown in the second screenshot. You have to exit Event Viewer to get that first screenshot. It took me a while to figure that out.

Thank you UNI. Updated. :)

Hello jraju, :)

Yes, that log would be from running chkdsk for clearing unindexed (orphaned) files. This usually indicates drive corruption.

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