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April 8th, 2008 21:00

Check Disk message at boot up

I'm starting to get this message about every 3rd or 4th time I turn the computer on. I've got an M1330 notebook with a Vista Pre. OS

'one of your disks needs to be checked for consistency'

'chkdsk is verigying files'

Anybody know what may cause this?

The computer seems to run fine after it goes through this process.

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mfinnan101
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Posted April 13th, 2008 21:00
This happens when Windows thinks there might be an error on your hard drive. When it completes the Chdsk does it say you have any Bad Sectors?
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Posted April 14th, 2008 12:00
No, it never displays another message. After it gets done with the chkdsk it boots up and runs fine. I am concernered about because I think it's the hard drive too and I worried it may go out.

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Posted April 14th, 2008 12:00
If chkdsk displays "0kB in bad sectors" when it's finished, your hard drive is fine. Try running a system diagnostic at startup (F12). It'll tell you if you have a hardware fault.
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Posted April 14th, 2008 12:00
I will try that, thanks for the idea!
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Posted April 14th, 2008 13:00
No problem at all.

If it does return an error contact Dell with the error code.