Windows will warn if Check Disk detects irreparable damage?

For Windows 7, if the disk check utility is used on the C drive and includes a review of surface (what will happen to the restart of the computer), Windows will notify the user in a clear manner if there is a critical problem found, or it is entirely up to the user to look in their system logs later and interpret to understand if the disk check found something he could not repair?

Windows will not "ci".  To see the results of chdksk after the reboot, open Event Viewer and look in the Application log for a recent event of Wininit and open.  The complete chkdsk log will be there.  If it is long, it is easier to read if copy you and paste it into Notepad.
(In XP it was an event of Winlogon, rather than Wininit.)

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