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Checkdisk reports "60 reparse records processed." What does it mean? Is it something to worry about?

Also, if anyone can decipher what the following means and whether it's a bad sign, would be most appreciated:
Cleaning up 266 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 266 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 266 unused security descriptors.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the master file table (MFT) bitmap.


Here is the full context:

180 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. 0 EA records processed. 60 reparse records processed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
293802 index entries processed. Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned. 0 unindexed files recovered. CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
230912 file SDs/SIDs processed. Cleaning up 266 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 266 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 266 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
31446 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
35125064 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
230896 files processed. File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
49440731 free clusters processed. Free space verification is complete.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.

This is nothing to worry about, these are only minor corrections - cleaning up garbage left behind by Windows. It's not a hard disk problem.

These types of error are typically caused when windows crashes, or when you turn your computer off without shutting it down. They are worth fixing, but your disk drive is fine.

What about "Cleaning up 19 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9." Is this similarly nothing to worry about?

jmt356 wrote:What about "Cleaning up 19 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9." Is this similarly nothing to worry about?

I would not worry about that message, especially if you were checking a disk that was in use.