CHKDSK

[Grace]

Today, for the first time ever, to my knowledge, when I turned my computer
on, it went into a routine that I've never seen before.

Checking file system on C
Type of file system is NTFS
Volume is dirty
CHKDSK is verifying files
File verification complete
CHKDSK is verifying indexes
Deleting index... something ;like BES .DI. dilbert

and then some more deleting that came and went before I could copy it down!

I assume this is something that was supposed to get fixed, rather than a
virus taking over. Pls advise.

Thanks

 

[Guest]

Grace

That is usually nothing to worry about. CHKDSK is a Microsoft utility which verifies the integrity of files on your hard disk. It automatically starts if the computer was improperly shut down in the past

Vivek

 

[Grace]

What you are describing sounds more like scandisk, not CHKDSK. I think I
would have noticed my computer going into this 3 minute "on screen" routine
before, if it had happened every time my computer was improperly shutdown,
which is about once-a-week.

Though I suspect this was, indeed, a good thing, is there anything I should
be wary of, given that it occurred?

Thanks,
G

Grace,

That is usually nothing to worry about. CHKDSK is a Microsoft utility

which verifies the integrity of files on your hard disk. It automatically
starts if the computer was improperly shut down in the past.