I have downloaded and installed Intel Memory and Storage tool, and run a diagnostic on the drive and it goes to 100% and all is 'green' for the health of the SSD. I have also run chkdsk /f (As suggested by the eventviewer). I have run an sfc /scannow in CMD, it detected nothing. I have run a scan with Malwarebytes, CCleaner, and Bitdefender - no malware to be found so far. (I know sometimes USB can cause this issue?) I have a mouse and a headset plugged in constantly. How I shut down my Laptop: Windows Menu > Power > Shut Down - wait 2 minutes, close laptop, unplug laptop. It’s a good idea to check your drive for errors on a regular basis yourself.Literally every time I turn off and start up this laptop (unless it's a soft restart), it performs a checkdisk at startup. Windows will no longer perform these automatic scans.

Click Command Prompt (Admin) ( Windows PowerShell (Admin) in Windows 8.1).

Right click on Command Prompt and click Run as Administrator.

If you notice that Windows is scanning your drive automatically every time you reboot, no matter what you do, there’s a way to disable these automatic scans. It just means that Windows needs to complete a scan before marking the drive “clean” again. This disk check can also occur when you remove a USB hard drive before Windows has a chance to finish its current activity with it.īoth of these disk checks happen because Windows marks your drive as “dirty”. If you interrupt it, Windows will just ask you again the next time you reboot. However, certain types of PC crashes can cause disk errors, so when you see this pop up, it’s a good idea to let it run its course, even if that takes awhile. Usually, this disk check won’t uncover a problem. For example, you have a power outage, your computer froze up and you had to shut it down, or your battery was removed.

The short answer is “No.” This automatic disc check occurs when your PC isn’t shut down properly.

This automatic scan can happen often when you start up your PC. What does this mean? Is the hard drive damaged? Should you be worried? It says that your hard drive needs to be checked for consistency, and launches a scan of the hard drive. We start up our desktop or laptop PC as normal, and suddenly a screen appears.

Disk check on startup