I think what you are dealing with is AV extortion, when you haven't paid enough "lately" out of your pension to an AV provider for updates or upgrades it is time to "urge" you into wanting more security or hire professional help.. "mcafee is the worst for extortion" <-L@@K
I would be willing to bet why your drive diagnostic is undecided is probably because AV is messing with the registry, scandsk can help find and repair the problem and a registry fixer would get the actual problem temporarily fixed but unless you find which security program is culprit it will continue.
"registry entries are logged" any access not having windows permission will be a violation to windows and cause rejection by the OS or even having paid registered software auto removed or quarantined by windows..
AVG is good IMO
malwarebytes good IMO
advanced system care good IMO, as it automates many things you can do but it reduces it to a one click fix. still this is IMO and that's that..
if you eliminate the above and still have an issue it's probably a physical problem like
1) bad lace cable.
2) broken pins on drive or board socket.
3) lowV or "un-tuned" power supply<- if your like me you got a-lot of usb junk connected. to much at once will draw off so much current the Voltage on the 5vsupply line drops, causing inconsistent data transmission appearing to be bad sectors... try disconnecting some junk and reboot without it trying the diagnostic again..Statistics: Posted by iamdenteddisk — Sun Oct 13, 2013 1:00 pm
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