The issue is now refined a bit. The hard drive error was reported by automatic maintenance in the Security and Maintenance center, and called for reboots, but never took action on reboots. However,...

Thanks for the reply, but my posting wasn't for input on HDD repairs itself (I do have the drive OEM diagnostics available), but more to point out that the Windows native NTFS disk check routine (not...

I am running build 9926, and got a maintenance error message yesterday, "Restart to repair hard drive errors (Important)". noting a need to restart the PC (as is common for NTFS repairs). However,...