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This might be of use to some who might come across the issue that I had the other day.
I had just created a restore point prior to carrying out a complete partition backup of my system. Thank god that I did because a little later on in the day I noticed the Microsoft Action Center system tray icon telling me that an error had been detected with my hard drive and I needed to reboot in order for tests and corrections to be run. After waiting an age for the diagnostics to run, Windows refused to boot at all, so I duly entered the recovery mode that allows a system restore. I was informed that there were no system restore points available. After booting from a Hirens CD and inspecting the contents of my drive, there was indeed a restore point available. I ran a variety of tests on my SSD, including one from the manufacturer, which yielded no issues whatsoever. I restored my image backup (Paragon B&R Free), which went perfectly. The system booted and everything runs perfectly, except that the Action Centre still thinks that I have a problem and wants to reboot so that it can screw up my machine yet again. I have turned off notifications for disk errors in the future and based upon my experience, would recommend others do so as well and use a third party utility to check your disk if required. |
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This incident cannot be generalized for all systems. It can be a local issue with your system only.
Since Windows is indicating something, there might be a problem. Would be better to run check disk on the drive.
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If you restored the image then that should have cleared the error condition from the Action Center. So what is the exact message that the Action Center is reporting?
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I have seen several occasions in the past where MS have said there is a fault on my disk and I need to let it check it. Every time it has completely corrupted the disk and I have had to restore from last nights back up. Further investigation shows NO Errors, viruses, Trojans whatever.
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For your warning to be useful you should be a lot more specific: system description and configuration, literal error messages, etc. Disk data is corrupted for many reasons. It would be an extremely unusual problem for it to be a Windows fault when there are several more probable sources of such problems. I have seen thousands of disk problems blamed on Windows. Only two were Windows faults and they tend to be documented elsewhere given the number of Windows users.
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Firstly, I did say "in the past". The cause could not be ascertained because the system was wiped out.
Secondly, I am warning people not complaining. Thirdly, it has happened on different machines. Oh, by the way I was a Microsoft MVP at the time and have been using computers since 1967 so I would hope I do know a little about causes and effects. |
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