Strange Message During Boot-up on Laptop

wa8yxm wrote:
Do solid state drives last longer? Good question and I'm not sure there is an answer yet.. SS drives are more or less immune to hardware failure and can survive an inpact that would shatter the platter on a regular drive.. But they do fail.. Eventually,,, or so I'm told.

The Samsung SSD I installed in my laptop came with a 10 year full replacement warrantee so I think the manufacturer believes that it will last at least that long. I expect that the drive will be technologically outdated by that time. The biggest advantage to SSD is the speed IMHO. No rotational or head positioning latency. I put SSDs in all my laptops for the mechanical robustness mentioned by wa8yxm, but the speed improvement is a major bonus. Have conventional HDDs in all my tower systems.

SUCCESS! Got it working I made a simple registry change at "boot exe" I changed the original key (autochk autochk*) to (autochk autochk /kC*). I thought I had done that before, but evidently it wasn't done correctly. Anyhow, glad to get rid of that message and the boot time is quicker. I'm also happy that my HDD is OK. Thanks to all who helped on this thread. :C

wa8yxm wrote:
The message, as someone said, is "problem detected and correctred" NOW that problem may be a bad shutdown.. IE: My "Main" computer (Now a file server) will do that if I pull the plug without shutting down properly first.

The laptops if I shut down by Leaning on teh power button.

This message is displayed after POST when Windows is loading. The OP's message is displayed during POST.

Do solid state drives last longer? Good question and I'm not sure there is an answer yet.. SS drives are more or less immune to hardware failure and can survive an inpact that would shatter the platter on a regular drive.. But they do fail.. Eventually,,, or so I'm told.

The message, as someone said, is "problem detected and correctred" NOW that problem may be a bad shutdown.. IE: My "Main" computer (Now a file server) will do that if I pull the plug without shutting down properly first.

The laptops if I shut down by Leaning on teh power button.

The message displayed is occurring during POST (Power-On Self-Test). This happens prior to the operating system loading. Try running CHKDSK. Type "cmd" in the search box, then right click on "Command Prompt" and select "Run as Administrator". Type "chkdsk /r" then press Enter. This will scan the drive looking for bad sectors.

Replacing a hard drive is a fairly easy process. The difficult part is installing Windows and the software that you use.

There is software available that will 'Clone' your existing drive. You can download a free version of Macrium here:
https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

You will also need a USB adapter to plug the new drive into.

I installed Win 10 "Creator" version (17??) a few months ago and had one HELL of a time running my HP Laptop. Many Windows system programs would not start at all or took several MINUTES to startup. Program icons disappeared from the bottom tray and menus. Backup and third party programs that automatically started at bootup failed to start. Other programs complained that the Windows system registry was missing or corrupted. I thought that my machine was having a disk failure even though my disk check programs reported NO ERRORS.

I did a "Go back to previous build" which re-installed my Win 10 version 1607 and the laptop is now running just fine. Apparently the "Creator" version doesn't work well with existing programs.

As an aside question...
Do the solid state drives have a vastly mpre durable lifespan?

fpresto wrote:
If it happens on boot up it probably has not loaded the operating system so a restore will do nothing. It would seem that Toshiba has a disk checking utility that operates during boot. This could very well indicate pending failure of the hard drive. It also could mean nothing and will work forever. There is no easy answer.

When the message first occurred, I even went so far as resetting the computer, in effect reinstalling the OS .perhaps another indication of impending HDD troubles. We'll see.

delwhjr wrote:
The auto repair feature of WIN 10 kicked in during boot. Do a complete check of your drive. Click on the file explorer, then this pc, right click on the c drive, click on properties, click tools and select check drive.
This maybe the first indication of a bad drive. Back up your stuff..now.

I had already checked the drive, using not only toshiba's built in utility but also 3rd party utilities, such as Seagate. All checks come up good. So I'm not going to be too concerned. My data is backed up very well. If the HDD takes a dive, I'll probably opt for a new laptop,taking in to consideration the cost of replacing the HDD. I have one paralyzed arm, so I wouldn't opt to try fixing it myself.
This is my 4rh Toshiba. It isn't that old, so I'd be surprised if the hard drive is giving up so soon.. True, no matter how new a device is, there's no guarantee it's going to give the service you might expect.

The auto repair feature of WIN 10 kicked in during boot. Do a complete check of your drive. Click on the file explorer, then this pc, right click on the c drive, click on properties, click tools and select check drive.
This maybe the first indication of a bad drive. Back up your stuff..now.