[wannabe1]

Do you have more than one hard drive in the machine? Or more than one partition on the drive?

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Once in a while the computer freezes and I have to shut it down that way, but it's pretty unusual. Almost every time chkdsk is running it does so after having been powered down normally.

[karkalec]

Once in a while the computer freezes and I have to shut it down that way, but it's pretty unusual. Almost every time chkdsk is running it does so after having been powered down normally.

[karkalec]

There are two hard drives on the machine, but each just has one partition.

[wannabe1]

Run the disk check on the other drive. Do it the same way as you did the system drive (c:) only substitute the new drive letter. Assuming the drive is labeled D:, the command would be chkdsk /r d:

Usually when I see chkdsk running on boot, it's accompanied by a message that states "One of the disks needs to be checked for inconsistencies...". It's not always the system drive that triggers the disk check to run.

[karkalec]

Disk Check result is attached. It didn't turn up anything.

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Did you see my post about turning off your PC

[karkalec]

Yes: Posted Today, 04:52 AM
Once in a while the computer freezes and I have to shut it down that way, but it's pretty unusual. Almost every time chkdsk is running it does so after having been powered down normally.

[karkalec]

Computer froze again just now. When it does so it will not bring up task manager to kill processes so I have to restart by holding down power. Is this possibly something that a repair install could fix?

[wannabe1]

That's what I'd do next if it were my machine.

I'm very curious to see if the repair will address the chkdsk issue.

[karkalec]

I ran the repair install this morning. Hopefully it will fix whatever was wrong. I did try to check my chkdsk logfile in the event viewer and am still getting the same error there. Is there a log anywhere which will show me what Windows repaired while running the repair install, or do I just have to wait and see what happens next.

Thanks,

Justin