Command prompt keeps finding corrupt files.

[theringmaster55]

After having a few bad experiences happening to my PC,and quite a few BSODs, I decide to do a sfc /scannow command, to see if there is anything wrong with my PC. I only do it once in a while though. For the first few scans, it didn't find any corrupt files, but seems to always find corrupt files now. It manages to repair them. It hasn't crashed my PC yet, but I just am wondering why it keeps finding corrupt files, after scanning the PC every time?

My PC is only 2 or so years old.

Thanks

[plat]

The routine is: Admin cmd.

sfc /scannow
dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
sfc /scannow

If there is still corruption, I found doing a repair-install of Windows (keeping all apps, data and settings) works well.

You can run the Media Creation tool from your desktop instead of the USB drive.

https://www.techspot.com/guides/1764-windows-repair-keep-all-your-files-intact/

Edited to fix link and put a space in the first cmd.

[BlackBloodGhost]

Do you have a spinning rust drive? If so perform a SMART check on it and look for any pending sectors or reallocated sectors. This could be a sign of a failing drive.

[theringmaster55]

İlk olarak plat tarafından gönderildi:

The routine is: Admin cmd.

sfc/scannow
dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
sfc /scannow

If there is still corruption, I found doing a repair-install of Windows (keeping all apps, data and settings) works well.

You can run the Media Creation tool from your desktop instead of the USB drive.

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/3819656934433763970/

Thank you

I have done dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth and the restore operation completed successfully. No corrupt files after 2nd scan. Just restarted PC and no violations. Hopefully it will stay that way. Cheers.

[theringmaster55]

İlk olarak BlackBloodRum tarafından gönderildi:

Do you have a spinning rust drive? If so perform a SMART check on it and look for any pending sectors or reallocated sectors. This could be a sign of a failing drive.

Just ran a "wmic diskdrive get status command and 2 drivers come up as OK.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You still never said what OS and Drives you are using.

As far as Media Creation Tool. You never run that from a USB Drive. You download the tool to C Drive, such as your Downloads folder. Then right click the file, run as admin. Then follow the steps to make Win10 or Win11 usb flash drive. The OS choice will be based upon which Windows website you downloaded the MCT from. Once USB Flash Drive is created, exit the tool properly when it completes. Then access the drive from Windows/File Explorer and then run the setup.exe from the usb drive. When ran inside your OS like this can more easily do an OS reinstall/repair that saves you a ton of time. It's also a good method to update your OS to the current stable build.

[Elucidator]

If you run chkdsk
and you find corruption..
that doesn't nessecarily mean 'corruption'. It could just mean that something went wrong somewhere (a bug) and it now got fixed.
For example: chkdsk also fixes the journalling file entries of the ntfs file system. It doesn't always mean drive corruption.


Likewise, the same could be said for sfc. Its possible it just found a mismatching file / file version, or that for some reason TrustedInstaller marked something as read only even though it needed to be replaced by windows update. sfc generates a log that shows what it means when it says it found 'corruption', although-- its not easy to read to be honest.
the dism command fixes stuff in the winsxs directory, so that sfc can use stuff from there to fix stuff elsewhere.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes I've had plenty of instances where I've run CHKDSK and at first I thought I had all sorts of drive related issues. Just turned out that some how over time, the Free Space was being reported incorrectly, and CHKDSK was easily and quickly able to fix that issue all on its own. Sometimes these things happen over time with OS errors, crashes, game crashes, partial downloads, system crash and/or auto reboot; etc.

Now if CHKDSK is constantly finding Bad Sectors; then you know you have a problem and it's probably a good idea to, after CHKDSK finishes and marks those off so data can no longer go into those bad spots on the drive; that you then take the time to backup that drive and replace it.

[_I_]

if its a sata drive it can also be a bad cable

[Bad 💀 Motha]

^ Very true.

[theringmaster55]

Hello all

I reset my PC again but without loosing any files and I still found corrupt files on my windows c drive. However, after removing the Xbox games folders, Command prompt no longer found corrupt files. Very odd that the Xbox games folder caused file problems. Don't know if it would be better installing it on my d drive.

Does anyone know why the Xbox folder possibly caused the message?

Thanks

[Electric Cupcake]

Better do a full backup dump of all your data just to be safe.

Everyone should have a Sata dock or enclosure for emergency backups.

[theringmaster55]

İlk olarak Electric Cupcake tarafından gönderildi:

Better do a full backup dump of all your data just to be safe.

Everyone should have a Sata dock or enclosure for emergency backups.

Thank you

[Crashed]

İlk olarak the.ringmaster55 tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak plat tarafından gönderildi:

The routine is: Admin cmd.

sfc/scannow
dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
sfc /scannow

If there is still corruption, I found doing a repair-install of Windows (keeping all apps, data and settings) works well.

You can run the Media Creation tool from your desktop instead of the USB drive.

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/3819656934433763970/

Thank you

I have done dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth and the restore operation completed successfully. No corrupt files after 2nd scan. Just restarted PC and no violations. Hopefully it will stay that way. Cheers.

Possibly an interrupted Windows Update.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Windows Updates doesn't handle anything to do with Xbox folders or apps. Probably a corrupted or unfinished update via the Microsoft Store App

Try to get in the habit of loading up Microsoft Store App once per week/month and then click Library > Get Updates > Update All

[theringmaster55]

İlk olarak Bad 💀 Motha tarafından gönderildi:

Windows Updates doesn't handle anything to do with Xbox folders or apps. Probably a corrupted or unfinished update via the Microsoft Store App

Try to get in the habit of loading up Microsoft Store App once per week/month and then click Library > Get Updates > Update All

Will do. Thank you.