Re: chkdsk leaves a log?

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Richard Fangnail wrote:
Thanks, it took about 30 minutes and here is the result. Regarding
minor inconsistencies on the drive - are those things that could
actually cause problems or crashes of programs?

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.
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 802 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 802 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 802 unused security descriptors.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
Free space verification is complete.

40146403 KB total disk space.
17897292 KB in 74275 files.
37388 KB in 6697 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
152455 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
22059268 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
10036600 total allocation units on disk.
5514817 allocation units available on disk.

I seldom find *anything* wrong with drives that are working properly.

If you have found anything - you may want to follow up with a hard disk
drive dignostics run with the utility found usually in the support/downloads
section of the manufacturer's (of your hard disk drive) web page.


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