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Win 10 Maintenance telling me to scan drive online - WHERE online?

Anonymous
2020-06-03T22:53:20+00:00

I have been getting a notice every time I start up to Errors Found, Scan Drive. So, I go to Security and Maintenance and run the Maintenance to scan the drive. Drive Status shows it is scanning the drive. It keeps ending by saying Online Scan Needed. And that's all. And I keep getting that same notice after starting up that errors have been found, scan drive.

Where am I to go to scan my drive online? And why would I want to open all on my computer to someplace online, to scan and go through all my stuff?

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-06-04T02:32:15+00:00

    BTW, thanks for all the input. My offline scan is still running, in stage 4 now, and a long way to go.

    I can't see that both methods scan the same -- my offline method now and always runs for a number of hours, whereas that online scan took less than half an hour, maybe only 15 minutes. I didn't expect it as fast as it was, so wasn't really paying attention, might even have been less than 15 minutes.

    BTW, with the R in my code, it also makes repairs.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-06-04T00:22:43+00:00

    Checking disk C without /scan parameter requires reboot. Chkdsk /scan eliminates reboot so is called online scan.

    Please give the exact text of message or show the picture.

    And please check system files with sfc /scannow command.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-06-04T00:41:50+00:00

    Oh, its called online scan. That's the critical info I did not know. THANK YOU. I'll run that, and then the sfc command (I know that one too).

    But one question: In eliminating the reboot -- the command I gave requires it to do the scan -- does that not leave it not as deep and the reboot approach? If I do the reboot way, deeper, then I know nothing was missed, so isn't that better? The"online" scan is faster.

    I'll do the online scan anyway, if it solves this issue, fine. If not,I'll try the deeper one and the SFC scan.

    I will do the scans as administrator.

    Will let you know the results, possibly not until tomorrow morning.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-06-04T00:05:53+00:00

    Well, thanks. I know about the chkdsk scan, but that doesn't do it online. And I use this command for it:

    chkdsk C: /f /r

    I was thinking of running that anyway, but that isn't online.

    But also, I'm not clear from the message I get whether it is referring to hardware or software, as in OS. I was getting this for sometime now. I just updated to the latest Windows 10 last week, and I'm still getting it, so that did not fix it.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-06-03T23:50:26+00:00

    Hi,

    to scan disk online use

    chkdsk C: /scan

    command. Replace C with correct drive letter if needed. Check the command result and follow recommendation possible.

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