one of your disks needs to be checked for consistancy

Izi · 3 Oct 2009 at 15:10

when ever my computer reboots i get a screen saying "one of your disks needs to be checked for consistancy"

i have 10 seconds to skip by pressing any key, however this doesnt work. Sometimes the computer boots in to windows, some times it hangs/gets stuck at 1 second in the count down timer.

why could this be happening? Its a solid state hard drive with windows 7.

thanks for any help

Izi · 3 Oct 2009 at 15:26

sorry should have explaiine... it doesnt go on to actually do the check, it just boots in to windows (when it doesnt hang at 1 second)

Izi · 3 Oct 2009 at 15:35

i am writing this post from the computer. its a dell studio xps 16 laptop. everything works/runs 100% inside of windows. I get 200m/s read in hdtune.

i could take the drive out and run check disk i suppose but dont have another pc handy.

Izi · 3 Oct 2009 at 15:42

niko said:
set it to run at boot on that one
edit -setting it manually might get it to start

i'll give it a go.

just running it through HD tune error checking, so far nothing.

also hdtune status is set as OK - no problems

Izi · 3 Oct 2009 at 15:46

i duno why, but there is a 39mb partion which says oem partition:

i cant delete it or do anything with the partions using windows as it says i need to run chk disk. the 14gb unallocated was the recovery partion which i deleted.

anyone know good free partitioning software?

Izi · 3 Oct 2009 at 15:48

jon i dont mind doing a backup and format, however i have litterally only had the computer a week and got it set up perfectly. it takes me about 8 hours worth of messing to get it set up properly as its a development laptop so lots of settings.

Izi · 3 Oct 2009 at 16:05

i deleted the recovery partion because its not required. i never use dell standard installs.

i deleted it because i thought that the 39 mb partion might be causing the problem so was going to delete and extend the unused space.

how long does a chkdisk generally take to complete? might it be actually doing the chk when i think its frozen? should i try leaving it on that screen for a little while to see if it completes?

Izi · 3 Oct 2009 at 16:17

no this started a couple days ago. i am just trying things to fix by any means, before having to reformat.

its not like i have anything to lose.

Izi · 3 Oct 2009 at 16:27

jon do you use a certain backup package or just in built windows one?

thanks for your help

Izi · 3 Oct 2009 at 17:32

its not random its just everytime i restart my computer

Izi · 5 Oct 2009 at 20:52

so this problem has stopped. it finally went through and did the check.

I did play for hours with uninstalling aps and things but nothing worked. I eventually decided that i would do a restore to an earlier version. When i went in there it said it was turned off. I tried turning it on but it wouldnt. I went in to settings and found that it had two 'c' drives one which it said was missing. I delete the one which said was missing and turned on the one which was switched off.

when i restarted the computer did the check after a few restarts.

dont really know what it was, but in case anyone finds this via google I thought i would post.