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Chkdsk Questions
Recently in running chkdsk /r on my system drive (platter drive, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit) I've gotten back results like:
4 EA records processed
76 reparse records processed
Am I right in assuming ...
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chkdsk won't work on secondary drive
I have a secondary drive in a USB caddy attached to my WinXP SP3 laptop.
Occasionally I will receive a system tray warning that the 2nd drive contains errors, and to run chkdsk.
The drive is NTFS, but ...
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diagnose "corrupt file" problems
My computer has been crashing the last couple weeks pretty regularly (at least once a day). A lot of times things I do will display a little notification in the bottom right saying something about a ...
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XP CHKDSK finds error when run in OS or safe mode, but does not find errors using /F on restart
I have an XP system that reports "CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap" when CHKDSK is run from the normal XP environment or from command-line safe mode.
When I ...
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Checkdisk is stalling partway through a scan
In Vista, when I run checkdisk at boot, it consistently stalls at 60%. I have tried running it three times. I now have a new second hard drive that is a clone of the original problematic drive. ...
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critical events in hard disk
I'm using acronis drive monitor to see if my hard drive is getting hotter.
and it seems like there's no problem in temperature but I see critical events:
The critical events are growing when I turn ...
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How often should I run CHKDSK? [closed]
For as long as I remember, I've been running CHKDSK once a month. However, with the advent of the "modern" operating system (i.e., Windows 7), I wonder if that's still necessary. Could I do it once a ...
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Bad Sectors on Hard Drive
I run check disk pretty regularly on my hard drive, and lately it's been saying that I have some bad sectores (66, to be exact). I've run smartctl and HD Tune. Both tell me that I have bad sectors and ...
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Windows 7 keeps insisting that it needs to check disk for consistency, but never does
Lately Windows 7 has been telling me that I need to check disk D: for consistency. This happens more than 50% of the time when booting up.
The first time, I didn't touch anything so that it would go ...
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Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check) during hard drive format?
I received a new HDD from my uncle, RAW file system. Tried CHKDSK, but it didn't work because of the RAW file system.
Update
I ran SpinRite 6 overnight and it got nowhere. Stayed at 0% for the whole ...
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chkdsk doesn't repair the file system corruption I have, now what?
Operating system is Windows XP w/SP3. While running Paragon Disk Wiper, to clean the unused portion of my system partition of garbage, it belches and comes up with this error "Incorrect dir structure -...
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Full physical hd check
I would like to run a full, sector-by-sector, physical check on some external hard drives. As far as I know,chkdsk does not supply this option.
Is there a workaround under chkdsk, or a good ...
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