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CHKDSK /R turns Perfect HDD Seagate 3TB to 0.7TB (marks the rest has bad)
Before I explain the problem, let me tell you what's not the problem. I don't have problems formatting or seeing the drive has 3TB, so please avoid this issue.
So, now the problem. I had this drive ...
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External HD defrag stuck at 0% consolidated - due to discrepancy?
I have an Acer laptop running windows 10.
I have tried multiple times to defragment my external Hard Drive (Seagate) but every time it gets stuck 0% consolidated.
I have run CHKDSK and I am posting ...
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How to delete fake bad sectors from hard disk?
I have a portable 5TB HDD. I was downloading data on it and it was 3/4 (or so, almost full) full with documents.
I did chkdsk /f /v /r /x just to check it. It was shown to be perfect in HDD Sentinel ...
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DISKPART formatted the disk, CHKDSK takes forever
I have a Seagate external USB 1TB drive. It seemed to be working fine. As a routine maintenance, I did a CHKDSK /f /r on it. To my surprise, CHKDSK reported a lot of errors at stage 1, 2, 3, 4. Stage ...
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Insufficient disk space to repair master file table
After I had to unplug my external HDD during copying on ubuntu, it became unreadable. I'd had this problem before and it can be fixed through chkdsk. But this time chkdsk failed with the following ...
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NTFS log file specified size too small?
I was checking my disks and it (chkdsk X: /v /l /x /b) says the log file size (65536 kB - default size) is too small, in each of my partitions, so I doubled it, and redoubled it, and it's now it's 1MB ...
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How to remove bad sectors information from cloned partition?
When some bad sectors ( literally 5 ) appeared on my previous HDD, I decided to replace it. I decided to clone whole drive using dd (run from GPartEd) in do-not-stop-on-read-error mode. That is:
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