Windows giving conflicting message about drive errors

Since I've already posted the error scan above, here is the rest *and no there are not 2 instances of hdtune open.

I've had the samsung magician installed minutes after I threw in those SSD's. Anyhow. Here's the results of some:

Log #1Option: EXTENDEDStatus: Successfully completed (0)Power on hours: 1465Failing LBA: 0x0

SM is up to date, it keeps itself updated without manual interference same with SSD firmwares.

Short diagnostic scan comes out all blue (The drive is in good condition)

Over provisioning has been set at 5%

I keep Rapid off and Trim my ssd's with Smart Defrag 6 (with trim enabled in SM and windows defragger off)

vgchat said:

responses are:

Volume - C: is NOT Dirty

It just finished the scan - no changes, same message.

Just to confirm, the command

Code:

chkdsk C: /R /X

should have prompted you to reboot and do it's job offline on next boot?

zebal said:

Just to confirm, the command

Code:

chkdsk C: /R /X

should have prompted you to reboot and do it's job offline on next boot?

Correct, it did prompt and asked to reboot which I did, except I used...

Code:

chkdsk c:/F /V /R /X

As for event viewer logs here's what it says when I ask it to show details.

Code:

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">- <System>
  <Provider Name="Chkdsk" /> 

  <EventID Qualifiers="0">26226</EventID> 

  <Version>0</Version> 

  <Level>4</Level> 

  <Task>0</Task> 

  <Opcode>0</Opcode> 

  <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords> 

  <TimeCreated SystemTime="2021-03-13T03:46:26.3720563Z" /> 

  <EventRecordID>18171</EventRecordID> 

  <Correlation /> 

  <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" /> 

  <Channel>Application</Channel> 

  <Computer>Big-Blue</Computer> 

  <Security /> 

  </System>


- <EventData>
  <Data>Checking file system on C: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. A snapshot error occured while scanning this drive. Run an offline scan and fix.</Data> 

  </EventData>




</Event>

So it seems that it didn't want to cooperate because I disabled Volume Shadow Copy service. I re-enabled it and set it to automatic and now it's doing it's error checking scan via the method described in OP with seemingly no issues.

Error message doesn't seem to explicitly say there is a disk error:

Checking file system on C: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it ... A snapshot error occured while scanning this drive

The rest of a message (non bold) is probably irrelevant since scanning the disk reported no problems.

What is disk snapshot?
Snapshot (computer storage) - Wikipedia

I suggest you check following services are configured like this (ex. not disabled or stopped):

1. Virtual disk (vds) -> Manual
2. Windows management instrumentation -> Automatic and started
3. Windows management service -> Manual
4. Volume shadow copy -> Manual

I don't know if getting rid of old snapshots could also get rid of this message, but you can test your command that produces this error after starting above services and see how it goes.

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I didn't see your update to previous post, but glad to hear you found the culprit!