One Of Your Drives Needs To Be Checked For Consistency

williamd · 22 Dec 2008 at 16:33

Keep getting this message when I restart my computer although it doesn't come up every time. It's happened twice in the last few days.

It's my Vista partition that it checks. It ends up deleting corrupt segments then Windows starts fine.

Normally format my computer every few months but haven't done so in a while due. Do you think I should just reformat?

What is likely to be causing this?

Griff7520 · 22 Dec 2008 at 16:37

i kept getting this with a mirror raid, thought one of the drives was dodgey....since then i have reinstalled and am using same 2 drives in a stripe raid with no problems. I am on vista 64 bit...anyone know what it could have been...

UKDTweak · 22 Dec 2008 at 16:37

Sounds like you have bad sectors on the drive, which means its going to loose data or fail soon, best to backup what you want to keep and replace the drive.
although it could be the result of failing ram or cpu causing corrupted data, do you overclock the cpu?

williamd · 22 Dec 2008 at 16:45

No, never overclocked. And I never really do anything at all to the Vista partition. It is pretty much exactly as it was after it was first installed. Is it possible a corrupt file on another drive/partition may be causing the error? If so then I have absolutely no idea how to locate said file. I presume this is unlikely as it is only scanning the Vista partition each time.

coupe69 · 22 Dec 2008 at 17:41

Griff7520 said:
i kept getting this with a mirror raid, thought one of the drives was dodgey....since then i have reinstalled and am using same 2 drives in a stripe raid with no problems. I am on vista 64 bit...anyone know what it could have been...

Did you not install the intel matrix storage console? This would have rebuilt the hard drive that had gone offline, or worst case scenario you would've had to install a new drive (had one of them been faulty) and then rebuild the pack. I can't believe you've gone from the relative safety of RAID 1 to the insecurity of RAID 0 after thinking that one of your drives was faulty, that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. :rolleyes:

Griff7520 · 22 Dec 2008 at 17:58

coupe69 said:
Did you not install the intel matrix storage console? This would have rebuilt the hard drive that had gone offline, or worse case scenario you would've had to install a new drive (had one of them been faulty) and rebuilt the pack. I can't believe you've gone from the relative safety of RAID 1 to the insecurity of RAID 0 after thinking that one of your drives was faulty, that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

I had allways run raid 0 before trying the raid 1...i am a gamer and dont keep anything on the drives to worry about.....i was actually in one of my board states of mind and decided to try raid 1, everything seemed ok for a couple of days ...when it happened the raid was rebuilt by the matrix storage manager....it took 4 hrs to rebuild the array........i never had any issues with a raid 0....I went back to raid 0 because i knew it ran ok before and thought if it started happening again then i definately had a drive problem....but it hasnt done it.......the only thing that i can think off that may have caused the problem is my pc went into sleep mode ....the problem happened when i restarted...and happened twice more in the next few days for no reason that i could see....could that have caused the problem?...