MobaLiveCD - checks bootable flash drives and ISO images. How to run CHKDSK - hard drive recovery How to check the boot disk

MobaLiveCD - free program for checking bootable flash drives and bootable CD/DVD drives. The MobaLiveCD program allows you to test the bootability of a bootable disk (flash drive, disk image) with an operating system, a bootable LiveCD, LiveDVD, or LiveUSB disk, or a bootable image in ISO format.

Many inexperienced users have difficulty checking bootable media, because to do this they need to enter the BIOS and then correctly set the computer boot priority.

How to check a bootable USB flash drive without restarting the computer? There are ways to check the functionality of a flash drive (bootloader operation, boot menu) without entering the BIOS and without using a virtual machine. Moreover, there is practically no chance to check the bootable USB flash drive on a virtual machine.

The free program MobaLiveCD is a simple tool for checking bootable media, the application emulates booting (works on the basis of the QEMU emulator), thanks to which the user can check the bootability of a flash drive or disk image.

Many users download images from the Internet, various assemblies from unknown sources. MobaLiveCD will help check the operation of the bootloader so that the user can be confident that in the event of an emergency, the boot disk will do its job: boot onto the computer to perform the necessary actions.

You can download the MobaLiveCD program from the official website of the developer - Mobatek.

download MobaLiveCD

The MobaLiveCD program does not require installation on your computer; to launch the application, click on the executable file.

How to use MobaLiveCD

After launch, the main window of the MobaLiveCD program will open. The MobaLiveCD program works in English, but everything is very clear there.

Main features of the MobaLiveCD program:

• “Install MobaLiveCD’s right-clic association” - “Install MobaLiveCD’s in the context menu”

This option allows you to launch MobaLiveCD from the context menu of ISO files. It is not necessary to use this option.

• “Start directly CD-ROM ISO image file” - “Start ISO image”

This option allows you to select any ISO file on your hard drive and run it like a CD-ROM drive.

• “Start directly from a bootable USB drive” - “Start a bootable USB drive”

This option allows you to select a bootable USB drive (for example, with a Grub4dos or Syslinux bootloader) and run it.

Using MobaLiveCD is very simple: connect a bootable USB flash drive to your computer, and then run the MobaLiveCD program as administrator. To do this, right-click on the MobaLiveCD.exe file and select “Run as administrator” in the context menu.

Hotkeys in MobaLiveCD

When working in MobaLiveCD, use the following hotkeys:

• Ctrl + Alt - return to the environment (operating system)
• Ctrl + Alt + F - switch to full screen mode
• Ctrl + Alt + F - exit full screen mode

Loading an ISO image into MobaLiveCD

On my computer there is a boot disk of the Acronis True Image program with Windows PE in an ISO file image. I need to check the ability to download this image. See how you can check this in MobaLiveCD.

In the MobaLiveCD program window, click on the “Run the LiveCD” button. Next, select the location of the image on your computer, select it, and then click on the “Open” button.

In the window asking you to create a virtual hard disk for your virtual machine, click on the “No” button. The generated MobaLiveCD HardDisk file is not needed.

There is no point in creating and installing anything, since the program allocates only 256 MB of memory. It will not cope with modern operating systems due to lack of memory.

We have made sure that the disk image is loaded, now you can close the “QEMU” window.

Checking a bootable USB flash drive in MobaLiveCD

Let's check the bootable USB flash drive to see if it can be launched on the computer. For testing, I chose a bootable Windows 7 PE flash drive from Ratiborus.

In the MobaLiveCD window, click on the “Start directly from a bootable USB drive” button.

In the next window you need to select the drive letter of the flash drive. Select the letter of the flash drive, click on the “OK” button.

Then don't create the virtual hard disk.

After selecting Windows 7 PE, the system will boot for a while, and then the Windows 7 PE window will open.

That's it, we made sure that bootable flash drive works.

Users having difficulty with English language, can download the program in Russian from the link mobalivecd 2.1 rus.

Conclusions of the article

The free program MobaLiveCD is a simple tool for checking bootable flash drives and bootable images in ISO format for functionality when booted on a computer. The application checks without entering the BIOS or rebooting the computer.

Good day!

Sooner or later, any computer (laptop) user faces problems caused by improper operation of the hard drive. (note: often called briefly - HDD) ...

Most often, the symptoms that something is wrong with the HDD are:

• inability to boot the “old” Windows (and install the new one);
• resetting some OS settings or programs;
• inability to open any files or programs (an error related to file integrity may often appear);
• very slow copying and reading files;
• high processor load when accessing the disk and trying to open (read) any file from it;
• Windows freezes when trying to read or copy files from the disk;
• the appearance of clicks, grinding, tapping, etc. when the disk is operating (pay special attention to this if they were not there before!);
• unreasonable computer reboots, etc.

If the symptoms listed above appear, the first thing (while everything is still working) is that I recommend copying everything important documents to a separate medium.

Well, after that, you can start checking...

At all, HDD- the thing is quite fragile, and if not handled carefully, it can quickly be damaged. The reasons for its unstable operation(and failure), most often, are:

• unexpected power outages - when the PC simply suddenly loses power (laptops, by the way, are protected from this). As for PCs, not every user has a UPS (unfortunately);
• forced power off by the user. Sometimes, when the computer freezes “tightly”, other options are simply not suitable;
• strong vibration, impacts on the disk - most often laptops that are carried with them suffer. The disc can also be damaged during transportation;
• in case of unstable operation of the power supply, poor contact on the disk (when the power is there, then not...);
• work is not optimal temperature conditions(most often overheating);
• physical wear and tear (during very long work);
• a bad batch (with some defects) from the disc manufacturer.

All these factors can cause errors. file system and bad sectors (they are also called bad blocks, bad - means bad, translated from English). Let's look at checking for this and that in detail, and step by step...

For mistakes

Checking and fixing file system errors in Windows is done using the built-in program - chkdsk. It's in everyone Windows versions: XP, 7, 8, 10. By the way, you may have even seen it work after a power outage: before loading the Windows OS, there is a black screen and some percentages are running there, something is being checked (example in the screenshot below). ..

How to run chkdsk utility

Method number 1 - on this computer

First you need to open File Explorer and go to “This PC” ( note: before it was always called “My Computer”).

Then open the "Tools" section and click the "Check" button (administrator privileges are required).

Windows has completed the scan

Method number 2 - through the command line

Also run the utility chkdsk you can use the command line (however, the command line must be launched as an administrator).

To do this, open the task manager (key combination - Ctrl+Shift+Esc), then click file/new task , enter in the line "Open" CMD, and check the box "Create a task with administrator rights"(an example is shown in the screenshot below).

• chkdsk d:- disk check command in read mode;
• chkdsk d: /f- checking and correcting found errors;
• - get help about the capabilities of the utility.

For bad blocks/bad sectors

What are these bad blocks?

Perhaps, starting this subsection of the article, we cannot do without a brief explanation. In fact, a hard drive consists of several magnetic disks over which the read head moves. When writing to a disc, the head magnetizes certain areas of the disc ( from computer science: zeros and ones ).

This information is recorded in certain areas called sectors. Sometimes information cannot be read from a sector (the reasons why this happens are indicated at the beginning of the article) - such sectors are called broken (or bad blocks. Bad - bad (English)).

To check a disk for bad blocks, you need a special one. program: it will access all sectors on the disk and try to read information from them. If everything is in order with the sector, the reading time is 3 milliseconds, the critical reading time is 600 milliseconds (this time indicates that this block has become “unreadable” and is not worth working with).

By the way, the same specials. utilities can not only find such sectors, but also reassign them to backup ones (this operation is called Remap).

Now about how this is done...

The best programs for working with HDD (test, diagnostics, etc.) -

From under Windows

One of best programs for testing and diagnosing the hard drive - Victoria. Using it, you can view the readings of the S.M.A.R.T table. (disk self-monitoring technology, more details), assess the technical condition of the drive, replace damaged sectors with spare working ones, and much more.

Another important point: Victoria does not show file system defects, software errors, etc. She evaluates the physical condition of the disk! About finding and correcting errors, see the first part of the article.

Victoria

Developer website: http://hdd-911.com/ (different versions)

HDD operating mode settings tab in BIOS -

After Victoria checks the disk, return the option back. Otherwise, the disk will start to slow down, and Windows will start throwing errors.

By the way, below is what the problem disk will look like. Pay attention to the line G-Sensor shock couter(the tab shows whether they knocked or hit the disk) - as you can see below, they knocked. Because of this, in fact, the disk began to freeze and slow down. In general, his status BAD(and red). In this case, there is only one solution - copy all the information from it (what is possible) and buy a new disk.

TEST tab

Let's go directly to testing the disk: to do this, open the TEST tab and set the settings (as in the screenshot below: read, ignore). To start the test, click the button "Start".

Victoria will start checking the disk, and you will begin to see how the numbers next to the rectangles of different colors will increase (highlight-3 in the screenshot below). Special attention must be given red And blue rectangles (these are bad sectors that have become unreadable).

If blue rectangles were found on your disk, you need to run the disk again with Victoria with the option enabled Remap(rectangle-4, see screenshot below). In this case, Victoria will replace these sectors with reserve ones, which is why they remember the word “treatment” in this case...

Disc testing (treatment) // TEST Victoria

If you have too much blue rectangles - then such treatment, if it helps, will most likely not last long. If the disk begins to “crumble”, I recommend transferring all the data from it (if you have not already done this by some strange coincidence ☻) and look for a replacement.

By the way, the appearance of blue blocks on a new hard drive is unacceptable!

ADDITION!

I would like to draw your attention to one point - if you run a disk check and scan from Windows OS, which is launched from the same disk that you are scanning - then the test results may be somewhat inaccurate (and the appearance of green or even orange rectangles may don't talk about anything). Perhaps in this case you can only look at the blue ones (bad blocks).

A much more accurate option is to use Windows OS installed on another disk, or an emergency boot LiveCD. Checking with Victoria from under DOS will show much more accurate results and give a real assessment of the disk. How to do it is described below...

From under DOS

Many, of course, are afraid of DOS and that everything will be incomprehensible there (at least not as much as in Windows). I will still try (as far as possible) to show with an example where and what to click to check your disk.

Victoria (3.5 for running under DOS)

Of. website: http://hdd-911.com/

As I already said, Victoria has quite a few versions. To work under DOS, you need a special one. version (usually 3.5 is used). It is a regular ISO image that needs to be correctly written to a flash drive (or disk). Often the image comes in a RAR or ZIP archive; the ISO image from the archive must first be extracted (WinRAR can help).

How to correctly record Victoria so that it boots from a flash drive

1. to burn an ISO image, you will need the WinSetupFromUSB program (official website of the WinSetupFromUSB program -);
2. First, insert the USB flash drive and launch the program;
3. Next, select your flash drive in the list and check the boxes next to the following items: Auto Format it with FBinst, align, copy BPB, FAT32;
4. in point Linux ISO/Other Grub4dos compatible ISO- indicate your ISO image with Victoria;
5. press the GO button (note: the program will ask you several times that you are aware that all data from the flash drive will be deleted! Copy everything important from it in advance so as not to be distracted at this moment).

Actually, if everything is OK with the flash drive and you did everything correctly, in a couple of minutes you will see a message Job Done- work is done!

Note: if you write the flash drive incorrectly (for example, many write using UltraISO), you may see an error like “no kernel sys...”. Just rewrite the flash drive using the method suggested above.

How to boot from a flash drive with Victoria. Choice the desired disk for test

By and large (if the flash drive is written correctly), then loading is no different, as if you were doing it for an installation flash drive with Windows.

The best option, in my opinion, is to call up the Boot Menu and select our flash drive. If you don’t know how to open the Boot Menu, you can use this article:

If you recorded the flash drive in WinSetupFromUSB (as recommended above), then you will need to select boot menu Victoria (see screenshot below - "vcr35r").

It is not a fact that by default the program will select the hard drive that you need. To select the disk yourself, press the key P.

A menu should appear: use the up and down arrows to move the pointer. The last item in this menu is responsible for selecting a hard drive on a PCI/ATA/SATA/RAID controller.

If you used the last menu, then you need to specify the disk number (set in the found list) and press the Enter key (example below).

Disk testing in Victoria (DOS)

To start testing in Victoria - press the function key F4. After this, a menu should appear where you need to set the parameters: "Start LBA", "End LBA", "Linear Read", "Ignore Bad Blocks"(ignore unreadable sectors). The selection is made using the "Right" and "Left" arrows.

Important! Instead of linear reading, you can set “Write (erase)”, “Write from file”, and in the next menu item - “BB = Erase 256 sect”: be aware that such parameters erase information located on the HDD!

For the test to run- press the button again F4. Gray rectangles should immediately appear across the monitor screen. Now all that remains is to wait for the verification to complete (by the way, Victoria reports the check time, see lower right corner - remain).

What to look for and what conclusions to draw...

In principle, everything that I said about checking the disk under Windows is also relevant here. On the right - sectors are shown, depending on their reading time. The more red and orange, the worse it is for the disk. If there are a lot of red ones, it means that the disk may soon completely fail (as a rule, in this case it slows down a lot, files are read and copied on it slowly, the PC often freezes, etc. “joy”).

Addition

Please also pay attention to the section "Defects"(on the right, approximately in the center of the screen). If everything is fine with the disk, ideally it should say - "No defects found" (as in the photo above). If you have found defects in this section, this may indicate serious problems with the disk.

And lastly, if you are having difficulties working with the program and don’t know what to press, try looking in the help - key F1. In general, be careful with the Victoria utility and do not conduct “tests” with your disk if it contains the necessary data.

To show all aspects of working with Victoria and consider all the nuances - I think this is hardly possible even within the framework of several articles. Well, I hope I accomplished my goal - to assess the condition of the hard drive, and therefore I am finishing the article.

Thank you in advance for any additions on the topic.

Good Luck!

Sometimes it becomes necessary to check some media (optical disk, flash drive) to see if it is possible to boot from it. Especially for those who do not want to restart their computer for this purpose, there is the MobaLiveCD program. You can download it by clicking on the button " Get MobaLiveCD now!".

The program does not require any installation and runs directly from the downloaded exe file.

You must run the program with administrator rights, otherwise it will not work!

The program interface is quite simple - the main menu has several buttons, equipped with brief comments in English.

Here is a description of each item:

Install MobaLiveCD"s right-clic association- pressing this button will add a button to the context menu of ISO files for opening them with this program.
Start directly a CD-ROM ISO image file- launches the specified iso file from the hard drive - useful for checking bootable disk images.
Start directly from a bootable USB drive- boot from bootable USB media - for example a flash drive. Useful for checking bootable USB flash drives.

Click on the "Run the LiveCD" button. The program will prompt you to select an ISO image on your hard drive. Select the one you need and click “Open”.
Then the program asks whether you need to create a hard drive for the virtual machine for this ISO image. If the goal is simply to check the ability to load a LiveCD, or to “look” at it, you should answer “No”.

Then, if the selected ISO image is bootable, then it will boot from it. For example, booting from a FreeBSD disk looks like this:

To finish working with the program, simply close it by clicking on the cross.

To boot from a bootable USB drive, click on the "Run the LiveUSB" button. In the window that appears, you need to select the partition of the desired USB storage device.

As in the LiveCD example, you will next be asked whether you need to create a hard disk image to run this USB drive. The selection conditions are the same as above - in order to simply “look” or check the download, you need to answer “No”.

After which it became clear that the flash drive was bootable.

Common program errors

In this article you will find a guide to using chkdsk, links to programs that allow you to comprehensively test your hard drive, as well as instructions for them. In addition, the article describes how to scan your hard drive partitions using built-in Windows tools.

On this page

Windows Check Disk Utility (chkdsk)

Windows OS has its own disk checking utility. It can be launched from the GUI or from the command line.

Running disk check from the GUI

Open the window My computer, right-click on the disk or partition you want to scan and select from the context menu Properties. In the disk properties window, go to the tab Service and press the button Run check.

In the next window, click the button Launch.

The scan of the non-system partition will begin immediately. If you are checking system partition Windows 7, you may see a message saying that it cannot be completed at this time.

This is normal because the system partition is being used by the operating system. Click the button Disk check schedule. To run the scan, you must restart your computer. After the computer restarts, the disk check will be performed before the operating system starts.

Run disk check from the command line

Below is an example of running a partition check C from the command line.

Chkdsk c: /f /r

Note. The command line must be run with administrator rights.

In Windows 7, as in the case of checking the system partition from the GUI, after executing this command you will see a message stating that the scan cannot be completed.

Enter Y and restart your computer to start checking.

Additional information about the utility's command line parameters chkdsk you can get it by running it with the key /? , or on this page.

Run a disk check if the system won't boot

If the operating system does not boot due to errors on the disk, you can check the disk using the Windows installation disk.

Windows 7, 8.1, 10

1. Boot into the recovery environment and open a command prompt (instructions for Windows 8 and later, Windows 7)
2. IN command line enter the command chkdsk c: /r

Windows XP

If the problem occurs in Windows XP, use the Recovery Console. After booting from the installation disk into the console, run the command

Chkdsk c: /r

For more information about the Recovery Console, see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

• Installing and using the Recovery Console in Windows XP
• Enable automatic administrator login when using the Recovery Console

Hard drive diagnostics using third-party programs

If after checking the hard drive with the utility chkdsk If you continue to experience critical errors related to your equipment, it is worth carrying out more thorough testing using specialized programs. As a rule, hard drive manufacturers' utilities or programs such as Victoria or MHDD.

Attention! Before testing your hard drive using third-party programs, you must back up all your data.

Hard drive manufacturer utilities

Diagnostic utilities may be on the CD that came with your hard drive. In any case, they can be downloaded from the hard drive manufacturer's website. Links to some manufacturers' download pages are provided below.

• Western Digital: Data Lifeguard Tools (you must select the disk model).
• Seagate: SeaTools.
• Hitachi: Drive Fitness Test.
• Samsung: Shdiag.

Diagnostic tools from other manufacturers can be found on their websites.

Victoria

program Victoria, designed for deep testing hard state disk, can be found at this link on the website hdd-911.com.

• Excerpts from the official documentation of the Victoria hard drive test

MHDD

The MHDD program is also capable of comprehensively testing the hard drive and fixing errors on it. You can download it from this link from the website MHDD.ru.

You will find more information at the following links:

The disk is in perfect order - what next?

If no errors are detected on the hard drive, it is most likely not causing critical errors. It is possible that the problem lies in faulty RAM or the power supply does not have enough power to ensure the operation of all devices. you can check RAM and drivers, as described in the articles linked below.

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I am interested in your opinion about these programs:

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aass, didn't use it. But I note that Victoria and MHDD are proven tools for serious diagnostics.

And Windows 7 can track SMART information. It will warn you if anything happens.

aass

Vadim Sterkin, Thanks for the answer and for the topic!
I agree with the assessment of the Victoria and MHDD programs, I myself use Victoria for serious diagnostics, but I try to test other programs, everything is learned by comparison.)

Dmitriy

When checking the hard drive with a standard program on Windows 7, it says that bad clusters were detected in null.sys... what kind of driver is this?

Dmitriy

Vadim Sterkin,

thanks...can the system slow down because of it?

Sanyok

Hello.
I ran (hypothetically) checking the C: drive from the graphical interface with parameters similar to your screenshot. Clicked the "Schedule disk check" button. Changed my mind. How can I cancel this one-time system disk check before rebooting the system?
I myself assume that it may be entered into the Task Scheduler.” But I want to know for sure. I see no point in experimenting. Since, after such a check was completed successfully once (in practical reality), it would be entered into the “Scheduler” even as a one-time check, and should, in theory, be saved. After all, tasks from the “Scheduler” do not have the ability to self-delete (I think so). But I didn’t find any traces in the “Planner”. As you probably know, I didn’t receive an answer on the Internet or on the forum.

Simply put, I want to know where this mythical “Check Schedule” is located and what methods and methods Windows 7 offers for adjusting it. And then it turns out like this - click, and ala-ulu...

Sanyok

Yeah…
There were graphics, but they all came out. This is some kind of graffiti, black and white, with a register. Just like Battleship Potemkin.
(Yes, I Googled, but really for a slightly different request). Thank you.
You can plan this by checking two boxes in the chart, and canceling by going to the register. They got smart here. Well, okay, there’s nothing to do - I’ll post in the forum.

Yes, by the way, does it make sense to check the second (bottom) checkbox if the system is on an SSD? After all, as far as my knowledge is sufficient, the SSD controller itself periodically (when idle) scans the memory for faulty cells.
And this second checkbox, by definition, is intended to check for broken cells on the surface of the HDD.

Sanyok

Sanyok,

You turn on your TV with the remote control and set the wake-up timer. The next morning you wake up to the music of your favorite music channel. And life flows smoothly and measuredly. But at one fine moment it dawns on you - after all, tomorrow is Sunday. No problem, you tell yourself. With a slight movement of your hand and a screwdriver, without unplugging the TV from the mains, you remove the back cover, quickly replace a couple of resistors on the board and you’re done. Tomorrow you can sleep peacefully until lunchtime.
Do you feel what I mean?

Vadim Sterkin: Sanya, what do you mean, wise? You don’t have to split hairs by pressing all sorts of strange buttons, and everything will be fine :)

It's really funny, but also of course, of course Truth.
Yes, but it’s not quite out of place. I don’t see anything unpredictable or completely incomprehensible in checking the disk. And the conversation was about the fact that if you have already provided a graphical opportunity to schedule such a task, then be kind enough to provide the same opportunity to disable it, and not through one place (the registry). Either remove graphics when planning (do planning only through CMD), or provide the ability to disable this task using the graphical interface. As an engineer, in my technical practice and in the practice of interfaces of various industrial programs and IT, this is the first time I have come across something like this. Yes, and in Windows OS too.
That’s what I wanted to convey when I said, “We’ve been clever.”
When faced with a question, I noticed that this function causes complaints from the user in terms of frequent independent launches. But let's not talk about that. As unrelated to the topic.
And of course, thanks for the comments. Everything is clear to me here.

Regarding the bottom daw:

To perform a thorough disk scan, select the Scan and repair bad sectors option. In this mode, the scanning program attempts to find and correct physical errors on the hard drive itself, which may take much longer.

It doesn't say anything about the file system. More about physical disabilities. Some of us are wrong. Or I didn't understand something.
And further in the text:

To check for both file and physical errors, select both options: Automatically fix system errors and Scan for and repair bad sectors.

Please comment. I would like clarity on the issue.
So as not to press “all sorts of strange buttons”, and everything was fine. :-)

Vyacheslav

I am very surprised by the capabilities of checking and restoring a disk under Windows 8. Changing the partition size upward using Acronis Disk Director 11 ended with errors. I wanted to increase the size of the system disk using the empty space on the adjacent partition by 200 GB. As a result, this program reports that everything is OK, and the disk size in Explorer has not changed. I checked the disk using the OS - it said that there were errors and needed to be rebooted. After the reboot, nothing changed and a request appeared to reboot to fix it. As you can already guess, this also did not help. As a result, we have lost 200 GB, despite the fact that Acronis says everything is ok, but the system is not able to correct the errors found. Sadness. Do I need to format it?

Vyacheslav

Vadim Sterkin,

In fact, under Windows 7, a similar operation was always performed without problems. I always perform the task of expanding/narrowing a partition in 2 stages: first, we cut off a piece of space from the partition being compressed and transfer it to the “unallocated space” status from the required end of the partition, and then we expand another partition using this space (I do everything manually in 2 reboots in case of "jambs", because Acronis performs a group of operations very strangely. There is a sad experience under Windows XP). So, if under Windows 7, after checking the disk, everything returned to normal and the free space did not disappear so easily, then under Windows 8 Acronis completed the first stage successfully, and when performing the second it broke down with errors, although then it reports that “everything is fine.” The problem was eventually resolved by booting from a Live CD from Acronis. It's a pity that this cannot be done under Windows 8. And I was counting so much on the “improved checking and correction of file system errors” promoted in the media. Of course, it is very difficult to trust that checking and background diagnostics of FS problems is working correctly. It is very confusing that the time to scan one partition under Windows 7 and under Windows 8 differs by orders of magnitude, for the better for the latter. Are all problems really so easily and quickly fixed? Maybe Windows 8 simply doesn’t notice most of them, or even worse, ignores them?

Vyacheslav

Vadim Sterkin,

Well, what option is there in Windows 8 to expand the partition size? I saw the Disk Management snap-in. Well, I didn’t see how it’s possible to cut the size of a logical volume from the desired end using “standard means”. There's also no way to move a partition within the unallocated space. If there is an analogue that I missed, tell me. Along the way, you did not quite correctly understand what I meant by the phrase “I had a bad experience under Windows XP.” And it was like this: after a reboot, this operation was performed and at that moment the electricity went out. Thus, I lost 2 partitions, although, in theory, there could have been 3 options: the second partition would have been lost, from which space was taken due to the incompleteness of the operation of moving NTFS service zones, or only the system partition would have been lost (although this is unlikely), or both partitions would be fine, and between them there would be some area of ​​unmarked space. But I was very “lucky”. Let's skip the topic of sources uninterruptible power supply and it turns out that Acronis is a reputable company, and their products are sometimes dangerous to use in any way in the absence of alternatives from the OS. And then another “surprise” emerged. And even here everything is fine with the power supply. But as I already noted, the last problem was solved by booting from a Live CD from Acronis and a classic disk check, and not the over-optimized one from Windows 8, the benefits of which I have not yet felt. It seems to be there, but there seems to be no point. Or maybe I was using the disk check tool wrong. Unfortunately, this “optimization” still raises more questions and mistrust in me than answers.

Vyacheslav

Vadim Sterkin,

Irina

Conducted Windows hard drive diagnostics (chkdsk). There were no messages, but later it turned out that there was no free space. Although before the check, less than 50% of the disk was full. And now it shows 931 GB occupied. Was all the free space wasted? The disc is six months old.

I forgot to say, after that I checked with Victoria and reported that there weren’t even any errors.

Irina

This is not the case for me. We are not talking about the system disk. And about the external drive. I’ve already found out that the system marked all the free space as bad blocks. Now I’m trying to figure out whether it’s a failure or whether the screw has died.

Sergey

Vadim, I have the following problem: After running the chkdsk disk check utility, if both “daws” are checked, it asks to reboot and the check is performed, I don’t know what to call it, but it looks like MS-DOS - lines run quickly on a black background. After the next reboot, I look at the information in the Windows Logs - Application, text in English, “there are many letters,” but the meaning can be understood from a single sentence: “Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.” At the same time, a few lines above I was kindly informed that, they say, “Cleaning up 31 unused security descriptors.” Sometimes it is not “31 unused security descriptors” that are cleared, but more or, conversely, less. That is, something is still not quite right, and the program corrects it a little. Like, overall everything is fine, but the Bug died. So, no matter how many times I run this chkdsk, it requires a reboot to correct these errors, nothing else is detected. Previously, on another machine in Windows XP this happened rarely, but now it happens time after time.
The SSD drive is about a quarter occupied. The system is legal Windows 7 x64 Professional and is automatically updated. If you do not run a disk check, then there is no reason to worry, everything works fine, does not glitch, does not crash. So, in connection with this, the question is - maybe there is no need to spoil your mood. I didn’t find a solution to the problem of these file system errors on the Microsoft website, and are they really errors?

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Are there any methods to check if the power supply is sufficient? And due to its insufficient power, can freezes/errors occur in games?

computer from a boot disk and learn how to work with this disk in a relaxed environment. Then, if you need to use the disk to copy data and test the system, you can easily do it.

Press any key here. A screen will appear (Fig. 8.6), on which you need to use the arrow keys on the keyboard to select the language that you would like to use when working.

Let's choose here Russian. After selecting the language you need to press Enter. The license agreement screen will open (Figure 8.7).

Here, in order to accept the license agreement, you need to press the number 1 key on the keyboard. On the next screen (Fig. 8.8) you need to select the operating mode.

The operating mode we need: "Kaspersky Rescue Disk. Graphic mode" is already selected. Therefore, to continue, just press the key Enter on keyboard.

The computer will boot from the optical disk; most likely, immediately after booting, a window will be displayed informing you that the system shut down incorrectly (Fig. 8.9).

Here you need to click on the button Continue.

Working with the Kaspersky Rescue Disc graphical interface is similar to working in Windows. Next you will see the Kaspersky Rescue Disc program window (Fig. 8.10).

Here, to run a virus scan, you need to select objects to scan and click on the text Perform object check.

Please check before proceeding. On at this stage you can turn off the computer and turn it on again by trying to load the main operating system (you can read about how to do this in step 8). If the main OS boots, this means that the antivirus has solved the problem. If not, boot again using Kaspersky Rescue Disc, and when you reach this point, skip the check and continue from step 6.

Please note that several folders have appeared on the system desktop. Usually the folder of particular interest is WITH:. It corresponds to the disk WITH: your computer. Typically, this is where important data is stored that needs to be copied to an external hard drive. If you connected an external hard drive to your computer, as indicated in step 1, you will see another folder here with a letter name. In our case this is the folder D:. To go to a folder, just double-click on it. In Fig. 8.11 you can see the contents of the folder C:.

Here you can see several folders. We are interested in the folder Users. It stores data of users who work at the computer. Among them are folders of documents, images, video clips. If you used standard places to store your data, such as a library Documentation, this means that your data is located here. That is, you can copy this entire folder to an external hard drive.