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External Hard Drive not accessible Raw in disk management but ntfs detect when lauch chckdisk
I can't access my external hard drive.
it's looks like a corrupted filesystem problem but I don't know how to fix it.
please fine bellow my chkdsk log.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> chkdsk /f d:
The ...
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Disk doesn't format, chkdsk hangs after "The type of the file system is FAT32"
I bought a brand new USB stick. Because I needed a file on it bigger than 4 GB, I had to reformat it. So I attempted that. The progress bar stood grey for 10 minutes before I gave up.
Assuming ...
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Drive is not accessible (The file or dir is corrupted and unreadable). CHKDSK aborts. What else?
I have a "[drive letter]:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable" problem with one of the partitions on my external hard-drive.
"chkdsk /f [drive letter]:" won't solve ...
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Is there a way to recover bad sectors in Windows 8.1?
I have a drive that is going bad. chkdsk /r fails to repair the sectors. It gets stuck at 16% for hours upon boot, and finally gives a blue screen saying I have to use recovery media. However, it will ...
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CHKDSK takes hours – is it safe to terminate it?
Corruption was found while examining files in directory ...
It's been close to 7 hours and still going. I think it started because I was moving GBs of files from my rusty notebook into my 2 TB ...
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Windows 10: most data hidden in "other files" after hard disk crash
After a bad case of hard disk crash, I copied over all readable data using dd to an identical disk, then ran chkdsk /F /X until it said that there is nothing left to repair.
Unfortunately I couldn't ...
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Is chkdsk saying my entire drive is bad?
I recently ran an aggressive shredding program on a Toshiba external spinning drive, then a recovery program on it to check that the shredding worked, and then non-quick reformatted it with NTFS. I ...
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Recurring portable drive error: 'The sparse flag in standard information attribute in file _______ is not set.'
I have a portable drive that often slows Windows 10 boot. When performing an error check on this drive as recommended after booting (Properties->Tools->Error checking), it will say errors were found ...
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CHKDSK fails in Windows 10 but ok in Windows 7
I have an old SSHD (Hybrid) 2.5" drive from my old Macbook which I wanted to reuse. So I decided to backup its NTFS volumes on Windows 10 Home but when I mounted it complained that it needed to check ...
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CHKDSK reports drive is RAW when its not
How is it possible that chkdsk thinks a drive is raw when its not?
I would like to check this drive but am unable to.
Trying to checkdisk from the gui:
Here we can see windows thinks E: is a ...
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Transcend 1TB could not complete chkdsk
I have 1TB Transcend External HDD around 2 years old. In the HDD, there are 3 Partition:-
i) Local Disk (J:) [~90GB] - exFAT
ii) Local Disk (E:) [~400GB] - NTFS
iii) Local Disk (H:) [~488GB] - NTFS
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How can I know if terminating chkdsk caused corruption? [duplicate]
I asked a similar same thing before, but I came to not sure about this issue and thought I should ask a follow up question to clarify the details.
First, I ran chkdsk /r on drive which got some ...
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chkdsk starts on every boot and alot of files got corrupted
Last week my system hdd (1tb) got bricked so, i replaced it with a new one (2tb), that's not a problem at all, the problem with my data hdd (4tb --> 1 partition), windows do chkdsk on that hdd on ...
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Manually aborted CHKDSK /r at this point, was data changed? [duplicate]
I ran chkdsk /r on drive with some bad sectors, and I manually aborted chkdsk at stage 4. I took this screenshot just before exiting chkdsk.
1 ~ 3 stages are passed with no error messages and stage 4 ...
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Is there any way to figure out which file is changed by chkdsk to replaced bad cluster?
I already posted similar question, but until nobody replied as solution of it. so i am trying to change the question as more detailed.
This is the last screen just before exiting chkdsk. There were ...
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Faster chkdsk alternative
I think at some point my laptop's (secondary) internal hard drive was disconnected, and it seems like there are a lot of bad sectors (though I don't think anything is inherently wrong with the drive?)....
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Advanced System Care 9.3 showing hard-drive error in Windows 10 but
I have a weird problem Advanced System Care shows me that you have a Hard Drive Error but when I check it using Windows chkdsk command in Windows 10 CMD (using all parameters) it says fine no errors. ...
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The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\DR3: which disk corresponds in Computer Management?
In Windows 10 64-bit, I went to Event Viewer saw this error:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\DR3
I looked in Computer Management > Disk Management, but not sure which ...
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Files on my secondary hard disk keep disappearing and can be recovered with CHKDSK /F, but CHKDSK /R and SMART find nothing wrong
My desktop has an SSD (840 Evo) as my boot drive and a 3TB WD Red as my data storage drive. I recently reinstalled Windows 10 on my desktop because it was becoming pretty bloated, and since then I've ...
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Who can explain the new options of chdsk on Windows 8/10?
Who can explain the new options of chdsk on Windows 8/10 ?
The new options are
1./scan
2./forceofflinefix
3./perf
4./spotfix
5./sdcleanup
6./offlinescanandfix
7./freeorphanedchains
8./markclean
I ...
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chkdisk on Windows7: MFT Bitmap Attribute is Incorrect
I ran chkdisk on my misbehaving Dell Vostro Laptop's C: (NTFS) from the command line in Safe mode and it shows:
The Master File Table's Bitmap Attribute is incorrect.
The Volume Bitmap is incorrect....
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CHKDISK on boot detects corrupt attribute records - what should we do now?
Running an 8-year old desktop PC with Windows 7, AMD Phenom II X4 965 Processor 3.40GHz, 4GB RAM, with a Samsung HD103SJ ATA hard disk (920Gb).
Used fairly lightly by one user for most of those 8 ...
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List of damaged files from chkdsk process [duplicate]
I chkdsk'ed my external HDD and found that some files have been damaged.
Can I get the full list of deleted files from this chkdsk process?
Command prompt window shows part of the file list but even ...
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chkdsk stopped before it's done?
I ran 'chkdsk /r' command on command prompt on my Windows 7 64-bit.
As in the picture, the process finished while it says '10 percent complete'.
I think it took about 8~10 hours.
It's a 2 TB Western ...
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How to understand this two results?
I scan my C Drive using chkdsk, it came like this:
chkdsk scan completes in 1 minute. It shows 12 Kb bad sectors.
I scan my C Drive using MiniTool Partition Wizard.It came like this:
It shows 9 ...
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After installing Windows 7, CHKDSK has ruined my Windows 10 HDD
Pretty much the title.
I installed Windows 7 Ultimate the other day, after getting bored with Windows 10. I installed Win 7 on a 465 GB HDD, while Win 10 was on a 232 GB HDD, label D:\ .
After ...
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How much resources does Chkdsk (formatting) use?
I just received an RMA'd 4TB Red hard drive replacement. I'm thinking I should run a full format (i.e. fully chkdsking it) to verify the drive and flag any bad sectors, especially since RMAs are ...
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Could I have a Failed HDD?
I have a computer that's been running not too well lately. I took it to Staples and after keeping it over night they said my hard drive is failing and I need a new one. I ran disk check, hard drive ...
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How to know if CHKDSK is still running?
I am trying to repair one of my disks with CHKDSK. Unfortunately, I get the following message:
"corruption was found while examining the volume bitmap"
Now, I don't know if it is still ...
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Is old hard drive dead?
So a couple of days ago my 3 year old laptop with win7 was acting up (programs didn't respond etc.) so I've decided to run a chkdsk, however this turned out to be a bad idea since it stalled at one ...
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Chkdsk consistently failing due to no free space but it has 90% free space
I have a drive that I suspect is a bit borked but none of the sensors or alerts have gone off on it. Regardless I decided to move important files out of it before replacing it.
But any move ...
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Is there any option to quickly scan an entire hard drive for bad blocks?
I have a 1 TB HDD so I want to test for bad sectors or bad blocks but badblocks takes a LOT of time in Linux (barely 4.66% done in 6 hours 3 minutes). In Windows however chkdsk scans in a few seconds ...
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Raw reading USB mass storage or SCSI
Wife's USB HDD has a slight issue where a folder refuses to open (NTFS filesystem). I have been able to image the drive with Linux but for one sector (sectors are 4096 bytes). Reading that sector ...
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In chkdsk, what is an online scan?
Running Windows 8.0 Pro, chkdsk has a /scan option that Runs a online scan on the volume (sic). What is an online scan?
My guess is that it runs it while letting you use the drive, which is good if ...
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PC won't let me skip disk check on drive that isn't needed to boot; how do I make it check the disk while running?
My computer has three non-removable volumes: a solid-state drive I use for booting and storing applications (C:), a much larger hard drive I use for storing the majority of my files (D:), and a two-...
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A hard disk failure symptom or a Windows 8.1 bug?
A friend of mime mentions a problem that she encounter recently, as follows:
She had two desktop machine. The older desktop machine run in Windows XP while the newer one run in Windows 8.1
Each ...
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Win 7 Login automatically logs me off after running CHKDSK
I'm currently running Win 7 Enterprise and I have 2 hard drives. I ran a CHKDSK on both drives. The process took about 7 hours to complete. Once it completed it brought me to the login-screen. I ...
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Chkdsk An unspecified error occurred 6c6f6766696c652e 29c
UPDATE: It was a bad SATA cable.
I ran the chkdsk /R command on an external WD 1TB hardrive connected via SATA. Here is the output log from chkdsk from event viewer. Not sure what the error message ...
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Can not access to Hard Drive in Windows 7
I have a old laptop HDD, which i have plugged into my laptop using a HDD Adapter via USB. Now the Hard disk is visible on computer management in windows 7 but not in the explorer.
Now from the ...
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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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Thousands of bad clusters discovered by chkdsk on external HDD
2 days ago, during download, uTorrent started to throw CRC error (write), i resumed failing download multiple times with no luck(same error appeared again and again just in few seconds/minutes), then ...
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Determine which files are stored in bad sectors
I ran CHKDSK last night (log below) and noticed that apparently I have 4 KB of data stored in bad sectors. Is there a way to find out which files are stored in (or at least are partially stored) in ...
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Is my hard drive in the process of becoming faulty?
There was no lead up symptoms to what I'm currently going through with my home machine. What happened was;
Casual non intensive usage on the machine, then everything locked up and would not resume ...
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Drive full after CHKDSK, but files don't add up
Last week, I was preparing to make a new partition (for Ubuntu alongside my current Windows) on my laptop, but never got that far. I ran chkdsk to make sure it was safe to partition the disk. I do ...
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CHKDSK finds no errors but drive keeps on failing
So here is the problem: I have an external disk that I use to store all the archived data, e.g. photos, movies, etc. The drive is formatted as NTFS, and checking the Disk Management tool from the ...
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CHKDSK doesn't complete, can't clear dirty bit
At some unknown point, the dirty bit on my C: was set (verified with fsutil), and now chkdsk runs on every boot. However, it always aborts at ~51%, preventing the dirty bit from being turned off. I ...
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External HDD not detected
I have Seagate Expansion Portable Drive Model: SRD00F1 which is out of warranty unfortunately. There were problems in it which I was trying to fix.
From these Problems that have been trying to fix ...
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Windows 8 hang on startup and chkdsk /f /r
Trying to fix a friends Lenovo p400 laptop. The drive is a samsung spin point one terabyte drive.
The system hangs during booting, will go into system recovery, or the uefi firmware settings screen.
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HDD bad sectors - chkdsk versus hdtune
I bought new HDD WD Blue (WDC WD10EZEX) as a secondary storage media (no RAID or anything, just a bunch of big video files on NTFS). There were a few problems at the beginning, Windows freezed at ...
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XP SP2 hangs on logo screen, running chkdsk /p /r now hanging
I have a windows xp sp 2 on a toshiba laptop, Ive been using it for many years.
The other day it hung on the windows logo and would only start in safemode.
I did a best configuration, restore, then ...
