My computer this week, twice now, has been coming up with this little notification thing the past 2 times I've booted up and said your C: drive is "Dirty" and runs checkdisc to I guess fix the problem.... should I be worried and/or what should I do to fix it?
Backing up your data is important as lpboarder said. Hard drives eventually die. They have moving parts which is why solid-state drives are so amazing. How long have you had your computer?
Solid state drives have a limited number of read/write cycles too. It's a huge number, but they'll eventually die as well. And FWIW, any electronic device, moving parts or not, can just suddenly crap out, so please don't get the idea that if you have an SSD, you'll never lose your data.
I totally agree with you Todd. I didn't mean to imply anything else other than solid-state is a nice improvement. Speaking of read/write cycles, it sounds like you're a CompE or something of the sort. If so, that's awesome. I'm in my senior year for CompE.
Nope, I was Information Sciences with a bit of Comp Sci on the side. I would've gone for the full Comp Sci major but the calculus was kicking my ass. Now I'm a software engineer for a major company and the most complicated math I've had to use so far is addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. I've never used the advanced math once. SSDs are awesome though. I'm thinking about replacing the hard drive in my Macbook with one, I'm just waiting for prices to drop.
That'd be me; I'm the one who's doing the BCS degree here. The thing I love about my school is that I have no mandatory requirements that aren't CS courses (besides 2 english courses). I just took some math courses for the hell of filling electives [although, calc 2 kicked my ass, but I apparently beat linear algebra]. As for the dirty drive: soap and water. Always gives dirt a run for it's money, and it'll be nice and shiny when it's clean!
What's funny is that Intel, one of my customers, launched them in Dec/Jan I think and even their employees that I talk to about it are waiting for the same reason. I guess even their employee discount isnt enough.
The best way is to just let it run. and when youre done running through and it still continues on startup open command prompt type: CHKntfs /X C: press enter and then choose repair.. thats what i idid hope itll work on you