ubuysa
The BSOD Doctor
If that's how things were with the paging file I would check your C: drive too.Ah, that's my K: drive - a 32Gb Sandisk Thrumb drive.
I have a KVM which I use to share my Mouse, Keyboard & this drive with my Desktop(PCS) & my work laptop.
I assume when I switch to the laptop using the KVM, the drive goes missing in the PC system & that's why it complains.
K:\>chkdsk /f
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Chkdsk may run if this volume is dismounted first.
ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID.
Would you like to force a dismount on this volume? (Y/N) y
Volume dismounted. All opened handles to this volume are now invalid.
Volume label is E220D Map Update.
Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
1024 file records processed.
File verification completed.
Phase duration (File record verification): 48.70 milliseconds.
0 large file records processed.
Phase duration (Orphan file record recovery): 0.25 milliseconds.
0 bad file records processed.
Phase duration (Bad file record checking): 0.23 milliseconds.
Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
24 reparse records processed.
1146 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
Phase duration (Index verification): 68.68 milliseconds.
0 unindexed files scanned.
Phase duration (Orphan reconnection): 0.46 milliseconds.
0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found.
Phase duration (Orphan recovery to lost and found): 1.94 milliseconds.
24 reparse records processed.
Phase duration (Reparse point and Object ID verification): 0.96 milliseconds.
Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Security descriptor verification completed.
Phase duration (Security descriptor verification): 10.00 milliseconds.
62 data files processed.
Phase duration (Data attribute verification): 0.47 milliseconds.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
381864 USN bytes processed.
Usn Journal verification completed.
Phase duration (USN journal verification): 14.93 milliseconds.
Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.
30044143 KB total disk space.
20698024 KB in 515 files.
264 KB in 63 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
43887 KB in use by the system.
41152 KB occupied by the log file.
9301968 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
7511035 total allocation units on disk.
2325492 allocation units available on disk.
Total duration: 147.07 milliseconds (147 ms).
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Paging file is 28.7 GB, managed by the system e.g.
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IMO it's not wise to use a thumb drive as any kind of permanent drive. There's no doubt that Windows was having problems with that drive. Are you sure a paging file didn't find its way on there?
It's unusual to see two unrelated problems so I'd investigate your paging issues very carefully. Problems there could easily be causing the problems you report.
TBH I'd want to test the PC without the KVM switch for a time to be sure that's not introducing problems. When testing keep things simple.