Intel 660p Disk Checking

[Skrax]

Hey guys,

 

Lately, I’ve been having issues regarding my boot drive. Every time I boot up into windows, a message pops up on the loading screen saying “press any key to skip boot checking.” It happens every time and I’m just trying to see what I can do.

 

My SSD is formatted as an NTFS drive, which apparently makes it more difficult to recover? I’m just trying to see if anyone knows if this means my drive is failing, corrupted, in dire need of RMA.

 

UPDATE: I used the SMART Tool that Intel has available for their consumers. It was unable to find anything wrong with the drive. However, when I go to properties and use the error checking tool in Windows, it says that errors were detected and every time I try to repair those errors, they do not go away. Any guidance?

Edited June 18, 2020 by Skrax
Update

[5x5]

Check the SMART chart.

[Skrax]

2 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

Check the SMART chart.

And where would I go about finding that? It’s been a while since I’ve been on the LTT forum. 

[5x5]

7 hours ago, Skrax said:

And where would I go about finding that? It’s been a while since I’ve been on the LTT forum. 

Aida64 of you can spare the money for a licence. If you want a free option, HD Sentinel or HD Tune though Aida64 is better at reading the SMART

[Skrax]

7 hours ago, 5x5 said:

Aida64 of you can spare the money for a licence. If you want a free option, HD Sentinel or HD Tune though Aida64 is better at reading the SMART

I used Intel’s Toolbox Tool and everything came up at fine. I also used EaseUS and they all tell me my drive is good; no bad sectors or anything of the sort. The only piece of software that tells me my drive has errors is Windows Error Checking. 

[5x5]

4 minutes ago, Skrax said:

I used Intel’s Toolbox Tool and everything came up at fine. I also used EaseUS and they all tell me my drive is good; no bad sectors or anything of the sort. The only piece of software that tells me my drive has errors is Windows Error Checking. 

Use Aida64, like I said. Intel Toolbox is as useless as lipstick on a pig.

[Skrax]

Will do, thank you.

[Skrax]

35 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

Use Aida64, like I said. Intel Toolbox is as useless as lipstick on a pig.

Done, everything looks to be okay here, correct?

[5x5]

8 minutes ago, Skrax said:

Done, everything looks to be okay here, correct?

Seems okay to me. I'm not sure why it's at 43*C idle, though. Is the ambient temperature high for you?

[Skrax]

Just now, 5x5 said:

Seems okay to me. I'm not sure why it's at 43*C idle, though. Is the ambient temperature high for you?

Ambient temperature in my room is 72 degrees Fahrenheit, so about 22 degrees Celsius. My drive is positioned in between my CPU heat sink and my GPU backplate, it probably doesn't get a whole lot of airflow. My other drive in the system which is below my GPU's intake fans is currently running at 28, so.

[5x5]

1 minute ago, Skrax said:

Ambient temperature in my room is 72 degrees Fahrenheit, so about 22 degrees Celsius. My drive is positioned in between my CPU heat sink and my GPU backplate, it probably doesn't get a whole lot of airflow. My other drive in the system which is below my GPU's intake fans is currently running at 28, so.

It's still odd, though. My laptop's drive gets no airflow and that runs at 50 under maximum continuous load. 43 idle is strange to say the least, even for an NVMe drive.

[Skrax]

2 minutes ago, Skrax said:

Ambient temperature in my room is 72 degrees Fahrenheit, so about 22 degrees Celsius. My drive is positioned in between my CPU heat sink and my GPU backplate, it probably doesn't get a whole lot of airflow. My other drive in the system which is below my GPU's intake fans is currently running at 28, so.

Mind you, my other drive also has a heatsink around it.

[Skrax]

Just now, 5x5 said:

It's still odd, though. My laptop's drive gets no airflow and that runs at 50 under maximum continuous load. 43 idle is strange to say the least, even for an NVMe drive.

That was the first thing my eyes gravitated towards when I opened AIDA and was very puzzled by it as well.. Nevertheless, it shouldn't be causing problems until around 70.

[5x5]

1 minute ago, Skrax said:

That was the first thing my eyes gravitated towards when I opened AIDA and was very puzzled by it as well.. Nevertheless, it shouldn't be causing problems until around 70.

I mean, the 660p is a low end drive but it's still odd - do some research and see if others are reporting similar values.

[Skrax]

4 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

I mean, the 660p is a low end drive but it's still odd - do some research and see if others are reporting similar values.

This very sketchy website concluded that their idle drive temperature was 37 degrees, so it seems as though it's fairly normal. Other places are reporting temperatures in the mid 30's, so it's not far off by any means, especially because I'm running my fans to be fairly silent.

[Inelastic]

I have the 1TB version that's working just fine after about 9k hours of being powered on and 3TB written. Its idle temp is like 41C. It sits on the back of my mobo so there's no air flow on it.

[Skrax]

1 minute ago, Inelastic said:

I have the 1TB version that's working just fine after about 9k hours of being powered on and 3TB written. Its idle temp is like 41C. It sits on the back of my mobo so there's no air flow on it.

Yeah, mine is tucked between the two hottest parts of a computer, my CPU and GPU. It doesn't help that my RAM also partially deflects any direct airflow. 

 

In hindsight, I should probably add an exhaust fan in the direct rear as opposed to having all of my exhausts in the top of the case.

[lilpoopooman83]

I dual boot Windows and Pop!_OS and get that pretty much every time I boot into Windows. Drive has no issues though and everything just works fine. I've gotten that message so many times, even on different machines, and never had a problem with a drive. Unless you start to actually notice anything wrong with the drive instead of Windows telling you something is wrong with it, I wouldn't really bother. Although it's obviously a good idea to keep your important files backed up, regardless of the situation. And don't worry about the idle temp, it's perfectly normal.

[Skrax]

6 minutes ago, part1cle said:

I dual boot Windows and Pop!_OS and get that pretty much every time I boot into Windows. Drive has no issues though and everything just works fine. I've gotten that message so many times, even on different machines, and never had a problem with a drive. Unless you start to actually notice anything wrong with the drive instead of Windows telling you something is wrong with it, I wouldn't really bother. Although it's obviously a good idea to keep your important files backed up, regardless of the situation. And don't worry about the idle temp, it's perfectly normal.

Understood! I haven't noticed anything wrong with my computer it was just alarming because it's been showing up every boot. Every other software other than Windows is telling me that it's fine so my level of concern is fairly minimal. I'll be sure to back some things up though. Thank you!

[Miniac1076]

Glad to know I'm not the only one with this issue. My 660p started giving me the same problem in the last week or so. The thing that confuses me about it is that Event Viewer says that "Volume C : (\Device\HarddiskVolume4) needs to be taken offline to perform a Full Chkdsk" when my drive only has three volumes, and says to run chkdsk /f when my only drive is c. Have you figured out any solution? Is there a chance that it might be some Windows/driver issue with the 660p? It's annoying me that I can't figure this out.

 

Edit: My computer just updated to Windows 10 Pro 1909 and it stopped doing the disk check. Try checking if your Windows is up to date.