Does chkdsk repair have the tendency to make things worse?

[Gears173]

Well my last resort is here.

I ran a chkdsk on my sata drive, where all my OS settings are etc(obviously) and it came up with errors.

I thought this would've been where all my errors were coming from after a power surge in my house from a faulty cooker caused the house to lose power for a few seconds and then I persistently ran into crashes and windows freezing and causing a reboot and every time it came back to on boot up "a disk drive ran into an error".

So after chkdsk finding a problem I ran a repair using the commands etc. Before my computer would last a few hours or if I played a game it would crash shortly afterwards but since doing this "chkdsk repair" my computer would literally crash ten minutes into logging on, like no time to even read a error report on event viewer or anything, I don't know if my windows files have gotten corrupted and I'd need to reinstall them or what, I manged to get onto task manager and there was no memory leaks or anything so I don't think id need to replace any parts at all, I'm just confused and frustrated because my system is not even a month old and it was all going great.

Any advice or references towards chkdsk problems would be great.

Thanks guys

-Gears

[Cryptonite]

Well my last resort is here.

I ran a chkdsk on my sata drive, where all my OS settings are etc(obviously) and it came up with errors.

I thought this would've been where all my errors were coming from after a power surge in my house from a faulty cooker caused the house to lose power for a few seconds and then I persistently ran into crashes and windows freezing and causing a reboot and every time it came back to on boot up "a disk drive ran into an error".

So after chkdsk finding a problem I ran a repair using the commands etc. Before my computer would last a few hours or if I played a game it would crash shortly afterwards but since doing this "chkdsk repair" my computer would literally crash ten minutes into logging on, like no time to even read a error report on event viewer or anything, I don't know if my windows files have gotten corrupted and I'd need to reinstall them or what, I manged to get onto task manager and there was no memory leaks or anything so I don't think id need to replace any parts at all, I'm just confused and frustrated because my system is not even a month old and it was all going great.

Any advice or references towards chkdsk problems would be great.

Thanks guys

-Gears

step 1. run CMD

step 2. type in "/SFC SCANNOW"

system files will be scanned and errors repaired if it lasts long enough. also make sure trying a different SATA power cable on the HDD and see if that makes a difference, could be that got hurt with the surge the cooker caused.

[Dimwitted]

It may come down to reloading Windows. Depending on the corruption a dll or something is toast. It's the easiest fix at the moment.

[Gears173]

step 1. run CMD

step 2. type in "/SFC SCANNOW"

system files will be scanned and errors repaired if it lasts long enough. also make sure trying a different SATA power cable on the HDD and see if that makes a difference, could be that got hurt with the surge the cooker caused.

Well should I boot up in safe mode? Just I don't wanna make stuff worse haha!

Not quite sure how to do it on my rig cause it's on boot up to other computers I've used and it's on a gigabyte motherboard.

[SlayerOfHellWyrm]

Chances are, if it's still spitting chkdsk errors after you've already done so, or re-installed Windows, then the drive is likely failing.

[Gears173]

step 1. run CMD

step 2. type in "/SFC SCANNOW"

system files will be scanned and errors repaired if it lasts long enough. also make sure trying a different SATA power cable on the HDD and see if that makes a difference, could be that got hurt with the surge the cooker caused.

My computer says it isn't recognised as and internal or external command

[Serfrank]

Had a similiar problem with a defective WD Caviar Blue 1TB. Before check disk = 6 weak sectors found, after check disk > 10 weak sectors. The drive was already broken, I had to change it anyway.

[NeatSquidYT]

Have you done a virus check?

[Cryptonite]

My computer says it isn't recognised as and internal or external command

sfc /scannow sorry

[phillrulz]

ive tried to use it in the past and it has just filled my ram all 16 gigs i get the low ram warning, never worked for me....