I reformatted my computer about 4 weeks ago. Every week I've been doing routine maintenance. Ad/spy/virus check, follow by cleaning of Internet temp files, cookies etc etc.
After that I would do a scan disk and the last 4 weeks has been ok, it completed to phase 3.
Hmmmm? I just cleared the cache, cookies, etc on firefox which is the default browser I use. Clicked scan disk and it completed pass phase 3.
What the is the relationship between clearing cache, cookies etc that makes scan disk work?. Because it seems I have to clear all those date before scan disk can be completed. Why?
I would have thought clearing cookies, history temporary files via control panel > Internet options > general clears all the data but it seems I have to clear it through firefox too? Why?
What the is the relationship between clearing cache, cookies etc that makes scan disk work?
Another thing. As I managed to complete scan disk. I decided to re check it just incase, at this point I was surfing the net reading some emails, etc and scan disk did not complete.
OK I have ran Chkdsk /r. Completed all 5 stages. Although I missed it completing stage 5. I saw it at 92% then suddenly computer restarted. But the rest of the stages had no error reports.
yes
when you start getting bad sectors it is time for a hard drive replacment,they breed like rabbits
chkdsk repairs the file system which can become corrupted for a number of different reasons
i.e.
shutting down the computer manually and not waiting for windows to finish shutting it down is the most common
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