In reply to a post by AEP:

Self-inflicted - fair enough. Microsoft don't recommend boot-time chkdsk in Windows 8. It's like trying to manage memory utilization manually; Windows is better at it than the end-user nowadays.

Bad disk perhaps http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/windows/f/4267036-s...

I think that it's more a case of old habits. Techniques that were useful with XP do not apply to modern versions of Windows.

I still see examples of people on other forums asking how they can manage Windows memory as they are worried that it shows a lot of RAM being used; the simple answer is that you can't do a better job than the OS does. The same is increasingly true of file systems.

The old adage "if it ain't broke then don't fix it" has never been truer than it is nowadays when OSs contain sophisticated code that allows them to monitor and correct problems without user intervention.

Yes, but looking at the 2 reports - SFC always finding corruption and Chkdsk taking ages to complete points to a disk going bad. Time to check out s.m.a.r.t. and perhaps new disk prices.

As I said before, there isn't a problem with the hard drive or any hardware - it's various bugs/lack of information in Windows (there are common problems), which, with any luck 8.1 will do more than add a few extra graphics...

A progress dialog is sometimes a useful indication, but when you are running tools in an "expert" manner you should be aware of what is happening anyway

But an indication of how far along the process is would be handy... An accurate one too - Windows 7 percentage value was widely inaccurate for stages 4 and 5.

Edited by deleted (Fri 20-Sep-13 15:19:46)

If there are no problems, why are you running the utilities that fix problems?

with any luck 8.1 will do more than add a few extra graphics...

Windows 8.1 adds a lot more than a few extra graphics (not that I've noticed any extra graphics at all). Most pertinent in this context is ReFS.

In reply to a post by AEP:

The real question here is what is wrong with your installation that it needs to run chkdsk at boot time.

^this^.

I can't remember the last time I saw Chkdsk running. Even on VMs (virtual machines) that are often killed off by the host being rebooted. NTFS is a journalling file system so should never need to be fixed after an OS crash.

Because I want to... I wanted to see what difference there was between the Windows 8 and 7 versions.

Edited by deleted (Fri 20-Sep-13 20:31:15)

Shame that Windows can't be booted off it...