Need a little help

Gartar · Post by **Gartar** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 5:32 am

Greetings, when I turned my pc on this morning I got a message saying ''deleting orphan file record segment'' with numbers behind it counting up to many thousands. I thought one of my harddisks broke or something, so I went out to do some farming(own a farm) while it finished. And now that I come back the pc is on and everything seems back to normal, can't see any missing data and all my harddisks seem fine. So I was wondering what happened? is there something wrong with my computer and if so how could I fix it?

galraen · Post by **galraen** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 6:56 am

What operating system are you using? I suspect it was just cleaning the registry if it is XP or Win7. in which case no files would have been deleted, just references to files which have been deleted already.

Gartar · Post by **Gartar** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:06 am

ashleybrown wrote:Hi, what files are deleted in your PC?

None that I can tell, just said allot of Orphan files were being deleted, but no data is missing as far as I can tell.

galraen wrote:What operating system are you using? I suspect it was just cleaning the registry if it is XP or Win7. in which case no files would have been deleted, just references to files which have been deleted already.

I'm using Windows 7, good to know, was pretty freaked out when I saw it.

Thanks for the help!

Kipi · Post by **Kipi** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 10:11 am

That message comes when your computer is running scandisk (or checkdisk, whichever it is in latest Windows). What the message means is that the software is deleting some files that were left in memory due crash which aren't used anymore. So basically it's just recovering the used memory from data not used anymore.

What all that means is that it's more or less common to get such message if your computer rebooted itself. It's normal and no actual files gets deleted.

robertwillton · Post by **robertwillton** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 3:49 am

This message is also can be for scandisk or disk fragmentation. If your system is working normal now then why are you worrying for this. If there will be the problem then it will surely visible.