Drive must be checked for consistancy

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Ken

I just installed ZoneAlarm, the free version. It was
running fine, then crashed the computer. Now my computer
tells me that one of my drives needs to be checked for
consistancy. This happens on every boot. I cancel the
request and my computer works perfectly. How do I keep
this error message from displaying on every reboot?
 
Ken wrote in
I just installed ZoneAlarm, the free version. It was
running fine, then crashed the computer. Now my computer
tells me that one of my drives needs to be checked for
consistancy. This happens on every boot. I cancel the
request and my computer works perfectly. How do I keep
this error message from displaying on every reboot?
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Let it run! That's what it's telling you "I'm sick, let me try to heal
myself"

Windows Help: Checking for disk errors
also CHKDSK.EXE (command prompt)

"Autocheck" is the process giving the message.
 
I had this exact problem happen to me months ago after I
installed ZoneAlarm. I let the consistancy check run and
all it did was make the computer unstable. Plus, it would
still have the same error message on every boot and run
the consistancy check over and over again. I ended up
buying a new drive to solve to problem.

So I am feeling like a dumbass, having tried to install
the latest version of ZoneAlarm again. I thought they
might have corrected the problem by now, I was wrong.

There is obviously something wrong with their program or
the installation. There must be a way to remove this error
message so I can continue. Like I said, it is running fine
apart from this error message.
 
Ken wrote in
I had this exact problem happen to me months ago after I
installed ZoneAlarm. I let the consistancy check run and
all it did was make the computer unstable. Plus, it would
still have the same error message on every boot and run
the consistancy check over and over again. I ended up
buying a new drive to solve to problem.

So I am feeling like a dumbass, having tried to install
the latest version of ZoneAlarm again. I thought they
might have corrected the problem by now, I was wrong.

There is obviously something wrong with their program or
the installation. There must be a way to remove this error
message so I can continue. Like I said, it is running fine
apart from this error message.
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I don't know ZA ... (KPF here)
Is this FAT32 of NTFS?

Try scheduling a chkdsk with both the Fix and Bad Sector scan options
and reboot (and let it run ;-) ).

The message is presumably due to the disk being set "dirty" during
shutdown. Whether that's due to ZA or not I don't know.

Any Event Log entries?
Suggest data backup soonest as precaution.

(NTFS)
Also might look into CHKNTFS (W2k) or fsutil ? (? for XP)
C:\WINNT>chkntfs c:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
C: is not dirty.
 
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