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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arachnaut" data-source="post: 185467" data-attributes="member: 15869">There is one more thing you can try. I'm not sure of the consequences for Windows 8 but I have used this for Windows 7.In an elevated (administrator) command prompt type:fsutil dirty set c:This marks the volume as 'dirty' and a full chkdsk will be done on the next restart. 'Dirty' means that the OS is to treat the drive as suspect - that there could be bad file indices and so on. It would normally only occur if a power fail occurred during file writes.It may take a while to run, but should not cause any damage.Naturally look into this a bit more and see if you want to try it.There are other things you can try to look for bad blocks and remap them, etc. That may be the problem with the non-reparable files. "chkdsk /r /b c:" does that.But, in general, it looks like your hard drive may be degenerating and it might be better to get a new drive.I would certainly make a back up of all your important information (email and documents, pictures, etc.) before you go much further.</blockquote>