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Remove Scan drive for errors notification in Windows 10
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Updated onMarch 27, 2024
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Nothing is scary as receiving the warning that you should scan the drive forerrorsin the midst of using your PC or whenrebooting.
First, your PC may completely refuse tobootmeaning you will have to spend time troubleshooting the PC instead of working.
Even worse, your hard drive stores important data whose loss can be devastating to your organization.
Of course, one of the most important system maintenance routines for perfecthard disk healthis running a disk check regularly.
Strangely, even disks that have all along seemed to be in the best condition are not spared and may suddenly display the irritatingscan drive for errors in Windows 10 notification.
Well, despite its stubbornness, this is a solvable problem and I will show you how shortly. But just before that, let’s look at its likely triggers.
Potential causes of the scan drive for errors issue
How do I remove thescan drive for errors notification?
1. Use the GUI error checking tool
Type your administrator password and provide confirmation if you’re prompted. It is advisable that you can run the scan for each drive (if you have multiple drives) to be on the safe side.
Just right-click on each in turns.
2. Perform chkdsk in Command Prompt
Compared to the GUI option, the cmd process offers more advanced options when scanning your drives for errors.
The error scanning operation also tries to repair any bad sectors meaning you might lose data during the scan/repair process.
Subsequently, alwaysbackup your databefore running it to avoid suffering a costly data loss.
3. Boot your PC from Windows installation media
What to do if the Windows 10 scanning and drive repairing error hangs
Sometimes Windows 10 seemingly freezes before completing the process of scanning and repairing drive errors.
When this happens, the procedure of repairingdrive C:becomes stuck at a certain percentage for hours on end.
In such cases, you can first try the system file checker (SFC). This may help as it also scans and restores any corruption in system files that could be causing the freeze.
You can retry the scan after your computer completes the sfc tests.
You may even be forced to reinstallWindows 10if the freeze doesn’t go away even after implementing the above suggestions.
What to do if your disk is found to have errors
If at the end the tool findserrors, the system will request you to restart right away to allow it to fix theerrors.
There is also the alternative to schedule the restart to later. We would recommend that you reboot right away.
Once in a while,Windows 10persists in telling you to scan the drive forerrorseven after you have restarted. Well, this could mean several things with each calling for a different action.
Here are some probabilities and suggested fixes:
4. Perform a regular disk check using a third-party app
In order to maintain the good health of your hard drive, you need to perform a regular disk check.
We recommend you use auniversal system optimizerthat can fix both system and application crashes. With this kind of tool, you’ll benefit from automatic error repair, since this software is completely automated.
We hope that our solutions helped you to solve the scan drive for errors in Windows 10 notification. If you have any other solution suggestions or questions, you can write to us in the comment section below.
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Madalina Dinita
Networking & Security Specialist
Madalina has been a Windows fan ever since she got her hands on her first Windows XP computer.
She is interested in all things technology, especially emerging technologies – AI and DNA computing in particular.
Prior to joining the WindowsReport team, she worked in the corporate world for a number of years.
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Madalina Dinita
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Madalina is a Windows fan since forever, especially interested in AI, emerging technologies, privacy, and security.
