CHKDSK deleted stuff

When I booted my machine this morning CHKDSK fired up and deleted some stuff.

It displayed information about deleting an orphan file and an index entry.

The boot process kicked in before I could finish scribbling down the information from the screen.

Is there a log file I can read?

Should I be concerned enough to take additional action?

Is it a coincidence that last night was the first time I had left my machine on for AVG to run a scheduled scan overnight, and the first time I had selected the shut-down-computer-after-scan option?

I'm running XP Media Center Edition SP3.

 

Is the computer running ok? There should be an event logged start > run > type "eventvwr.msc" (without quotes)

You can check your AVG log to see if it found anything.

 

Thanks Mitchell.

My PC is running without any problems so far.
I ran eventvwr and found an Error under System. Source=ntfs, Event=55, Category= Disk. Description is......

The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume C:.

Under Application I found the CHKDSK report .........


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.
Deleting orphan file record segment 118996.
Index entry A0038527.dll of index $I30 in file 0x188e9 points to unused file 0x1d0d4.
Deleting index entry A0038527.dll in index $I30 of file 100585.
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 4489 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 4489 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 4489 unused security descriptors.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

239794222 KB total disk space.
61870232 KB in 131353 files.
52268 KB in 10062 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
466314 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
177405408 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
59948555 total allocation units on disk.
44351352 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
f0 33 02 00 72 28 02 00 4f 2d 03 00 00 00 00 00 .3..r(..O-......
a6 30 00 00 01 00 00 00 3a 17 00 00 00 00 00 00 .0......:.......
2c 33 01 04 00 00 00 00 04 e3 db 7d 00 00 00 00 ,3.........}....
46 e4 64 52 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 F.dR............
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2e 76 76 e4 00 00 00 00 .........vv.....
b0 0b d2 b2 00 00 00 00 80 3f 07 00 19 01 02 00 .........?......
00 00 00 00 00 60 42 c0 0e 00 00 00 4e 27 00 00 .....`B.....N'..

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.


Nothing was found by AVG which appears to have run to completion despite the disk error being detected during its scan.

 

As far as I can tell you XP did its job. It just cleaned up some stuff for you.

As long as it's working fine I wouldn't worry.

Mitch

 

Thanks Mitch