Disk checking.

[Pippo9]

Whenever I turn on my pc, it wants to perform a disk check, but it does it almost every single time. Repair doesn't work, and if I get to go on, the computer gets sometimes slow, for like 10-30 sec and then it's fine again. What could it be?

I built my own pc and here are the specs:

Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H
AMD Phenom II X3 3.0GHz
(UNLOCKED 4th CORE and overclocked to 3.2 Ghz)
LIAN LI Lancool PC-K62
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus
Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB
EVGA GTX 465
G.SKILL Ripjaws 8GB DDR3 1600
XION PowerReal 850Watt PSU

 

[C1]

A guess is that Widows sees something about your HDD or one of the partitions it doesnt like (eg, partition table mismatch to the file structure). When the disk check completes, what does the report say (eg, was something found and fixed)?

Recommend physically wipe the HDD, re-format then run a detailed inspection/analysis of the drive using SeaTools. If everything looks okay, do a WIN re-install.

 

[paul878]

Download the Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (CD) and check you Hard disk with it, most likely there are bad sectors on you drive.

 

[Pippo9]

I forgot to mention that when I play bfbc2 the game sometimes crashes randomly,giving me a blue screen saying physical memory dumping or something similar like that. It's also very slow right after you login on the welcome screen and such. I've been trying to download the data lifeguard diagnostic but so far no luck.thanks

 

[VirtualLarry]

First off, undo your overclock and unlock. You might not like it, but it is necessary for troubleshooting. Then do what they suggested above, wipe the drive (write zeros), re-install, and see if you continue to have problems.

Before you do that, you might check the SMART data, and/or download WDDLG bootable media from WD.com and do a surface scan and self-test.

 

[Mongrelchops]

Check your event viewer too HDD sector issues.

IF you don't want to format and start again (fresh install) at this current moment in time, you can get around it but altering a reg setting.

You need to check the "bit" setting to see if its dirty after you have let chkdsk run its course.

fsutil dirty query c: for example, will return whether the drive is marked "dirty" or not, and therefore on next boot will kick off a chkdsk.

 

[Pippo9]

Well at this point, it's too slow to do anything. To turn it on I have to wait half a day, and if it does it's too slow to do anything, almost. I decided to RMA the hard drive before the warrant runs out. Now i'm wondering if I should format it or leave it as it is before I send it. What do you guys think? And I doubt it's the over clocking because it ran fine for around half a year now. Thanks for all the responses!

Edit: I did format it before, and the problem wasn't solved. Also, i ran a quick test on the Data Lifeguard Diagnostics and it shows this "Error/Status Code 0007". I'm running Zeros To Drive right now and will hopefully ship it tmrw.