Repairing a Drive Manually
On a multivolume system, when Windows 8 is ready to spot fix a drive and it alerts you that a restart is required, it is unfortunately vague as to which drive requires the repair. If you’d rather not restart at this time, you can check the drives yourself and, if the repair is required on a non-system drive, you can run the repair manually to avoid the restart. Follow these steps:
1. On the desktop, open File Explorer and then select Computer.
2. Right-click the first hard drive (this is usually drive C, which is almost always the system volume; look for the Windows logo on the drive icon) and then click Properties. The drive’s Properties dialog box appears.
3. Display the Tools tab.
4. Click the Check button. One of ...
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