Look over my CHKDSK results?

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DaveA711

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I am getting concerned about my hard drive... more often than not whenever I restart my laptop or come to it after a day or so checkdisk runs and always seems to find errors. I am not clued up on the terminology of the reports so if someone could take a look and tell me what the best course of action would be it would be very appreciated.

I am running:

Alienware m17x R4
Intel Core i7-3610QM @2.30GHz
12GB RAM
Nvidia Geforce GTX 660M
700GB Mechanical Drive + 32GB MSATA Caching SSD running accelerated mode

Here are the results from the last few chkdsk's

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7gzk8fz1fN1a2FHWmNiVWN4aTg/edit?usp=sharing
 
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I'd suggest running Memtest86 - those kinds of errors tend to be symptomatic of memory corruption causing the data to get lightly-scrambled while it's sitting around in RAM waiting to be committed to disk. It could also be a failing cache SSD causing the data to become corrupt en-route to or from the drive - try disabling the SSD cache and just using the drive directly for a while and see if the errors go away.

Stephen
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Any of those logs on their own wouldn't cause me too much concern.

No bad sectors being found.
Unused index entries/security descriptors aren't a problem.
Corrupt attribute records occur from time to time and don't necessarily mean anything is wrong with your drive.

However the fact it''s finding the same errors over and over again...


I'd recommend running some diagnostic tools from the hard drive manufacturer. Here are a few links.


Seagate - http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/support/downloads/item/seatools-win-master/
Western Digital - http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=612&sid=3
Toshiba/Hitatchi - http://storage.toshiba.com/storage-services-support/warranty-support/software-utilities


I think the Seagate program works on any make of drive if you are unsure. However it's best to use the actual manufacturers tool. I send back probably 4-5 drives per month on warranty and they never argue if it fails their own diagnostic tests (unless you have blatantly abused it).


PS.
FORMATTING!!
Have you even looked at the link you posted? Every second character is ? :no:
 
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I'd suggest running Memtest86 - those kinds of errors tend to be symptomatic of memory corruption causing the data to get lightly-scrambled while it's sitting around in RAM waiting to be committed to disk. It could also be a failing cache SSD causing the data to become corrupt en-route to or from the drive - try disabling the SSD cache and just using the drive directly for a while and see if the errors go away.

Stephen
 
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