PC Acting up lately

[TheDakPowers]

Recently, my PC has been starting to act weird, like Norton asking to optimize my disk, my Steam crashing and not starting up again unless i restart my computer, applications not responding and I've had to forcefully turn off the power to my PC to restart it as if I press restart, It will be stuck on the restart screen forever. I have tried resetting my overclocking as i thought that might be the problem but right now, I'm pretty concerned for my PC. For the Norton asking to optimize the disk, I've tried it and it goes on for so long and don't even know if it will do anything. I want to resolve this issue ASAP. Thanks.

System Specs:
GPU: Nvidia Geforce 1050
CPU: i5-7400
RAM: 8gb

 

[The_Prophecy]

Given that norton is asking to optimize your drive all the time and the other symptoms you mentioned, you might want to take a closer look at the disk itself. Might be starting to fail?

 

[TheDakPowers]

So is it recommended that i do as norton says and fix it?

 

[The_Prophecy]

I would start with opening up an administrative command prompt from the start menu (click Start, type "cmd" without quotes, right click Command Prompt and select Run As Administrator) and run chkdsk on the affected drive (e.g. "chkdsk /r c:"). Don't really want to let Norton fix it because I don't know exactly what it is doing.

It will need to reboot the computer to run the check with the /r switch, and it will take awhile to run. Interrupting this process is not a good idea. Let it finish.

 

[TheDakPowers]

I tried typing in "chkdsk /r c:" in my cmd, but it came up with "Access Denied as you do not have sufficent privileges or the disk may be locked by another process. You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode and make sure the disk is unlocked."

 

[TheDakPowers]

Oh wait, im stupid, i just forgot to run it as admin, im scanning and repairing it right now.

 

[TheDakPowers]

I have just finished running the chkdsk on my SSD

 

[The_Prophecy]

And did it return any errors once the scan finished? Once you got back into Windows, did any of the issues you mentioned above persist?

 

[TheDakPowers]

Sorry to waste your time, just found out that it was a portable harddrive that made it slow, once i pulled the harddrive out, everything went back to normal. But anyway thanks for your replies.

 

[The_Prophecy]

Glad you figured it out. Thanks for letting us know what the issue was!