Event Viewer NTFS error - should I be worried?
I have used Windows 7 for more than a year. A month ago I received an error message when updating Ebay's Turbo Lister. Looking in Event Viewer, the following error message was reported - 'The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume \Device\HarddiskVolume1.' I got the same Event Viewer message after installing Nero as well Looking on the Internet for information about this, I was advised that I may need a new hard disk - I had used my old hard disk for a year before this with no problems. I bought a new hard disk and I have been using it for a month with no problems. Today when updating Turbo Lister there was an error message again and the same thing reported in Event Viewer. Since installing the new disk, previous updates to Turbo Lister caused no problems. I ran chkdsk and the following report was generated - Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue. Windows will now check the disk. CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)... 74752 file records processed. File verification completed. 124 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. 0 EA records processed. 44 reparse records processed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)... 100950 index entries processed. Index verification completed. 0 unindexed files scanned. 0 unindexed files recovered. CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)... 74752 file SDs/SIDs processed. Cleaning up 96 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9. Cleaning up 96 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9. Cleaning up 96 unused security descriptors. Security descriptor verification completed. 13100 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal... 34674976 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed. Windows has checked the file system and found no problems. 488375968 KB total disk space. 25932504 KB in 57841 files. 35140 KB in 13101 indexes. 0 KB in bad sectors. 190504 KB in use by the system. 65536 KB occupied by the log file. 462217820 KB available on disk. 4096 bytes in each allocation unit. 122093992 total allocation units on disk. 115554455 allocation units available on disk. Internal Info: 00 24 01 00 2a 15 01 00 45 ff 01 00 00 00 00 00 .$..*...E....... b5 01 00 00 2c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....,........... c8 8a 2d 00 50 01 2c 00 c8 18 2c 00 00 00 2c 00 ..-.P.,...,...,. Windows has finished checking your disk. Please wait while your computer restarts. The only error seems to be with the index entries and security descriptors but I read somewhere there was a simple explanation for that and it did not mean there was a serious problem (can't remember where I read it though - I think it was a Microsoft knowledge base). Should I be worried about this?The disk has performed perfectly in the month up to this point. Could there be a problem with another part of the computer? Could updating a program cause this kind of Event Viewer error with a healthy disk?Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
October 20th, 2010 2:47pm

You’d better be careful for this error. The best solution is reformat and reinstall the whole system. Otherwise there may be disk issues in future.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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October 22nd, 2010 4:45am

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