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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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How to chkdsk completely unattended
have a question about scheduling chkdsk: I'm running chkdsk on task scheduler in windows 7 for my main hardrive (where windows is installed) using the following
command: echo y|chkdsk /f /r.
But I ...
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Reconstruct a found.000 corrupted harddrive
On Windows 10. I have a spinning disk hard drive which was corrupted by a bad external docking unit and has a left me a found.000 folder, inside are about 250 folders called dir0001.chk - dir0250.chk....
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Bad sectors vs spare/reserve sectors and how the OS and disk interpret them
From what I understand, there are two fundamental ways sectors are marked bad:
OS performs IO read/write instruction. The sector is replaced with a spare and marked bad.
Disk's low-level instructions ...
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Is it possible that some recovered files after chkdsk scan may be corrupted?
would like to ask if files recovered from faulty HDD, after chkdsk scan (before it was not possible to copy them) may have been corrupted, despite being possible to copy them all (again; after chkdsk ...
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How to repair master file table (MFT) mirror, even after formatting?
(Note: this is not a duplicate of Insufficient disk space to repair master file table (MFT) mirror, since that didn't have an answer and that issue was fixed by reformatting the disk.)
I'm trying to ...
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CHKDSK: "A disk read error occurredc0000010" on external USB HDD 3.0
I have a external HDD toshiba hdtb310xk3aa (1TB), and I have used it for a couple of years as storage for a Xbox One (Xbox HDD format), but from a couple of months I formatted it to NTFS to used it in ...
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chkdsk An unspecified error occurred (696e647863686b2e 20e4) & (6672732e637878 5e4) also missing from defragmenter
I keep running chkdsk on my HDD (it's a disk for games) but it keep failing in one way or another and need to it ever time it starts up.
I've got several pastebins of chkdsk I've done, these are the ...
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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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Is it possible to overuse chkdsk?
I perform a chkdsk /f/v/sdcleanup/perf/scan every time I use an external USB drive or hard disk drive — and on my internal drives — every time I copy or delete a big file (size more than 1GB) only to ...
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chkdsk An unspecified error occured (6c6f6766696c652e 2a9)
I ran the chkdsk /f command for my external Toshiba 2TB hard drive. It ran the first two stages just fine. However, gave an error at the 3rd Stage. Following is the output log from chkdsk at Stage 3 ...
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Why might chkdsk not be able to repair a disk?
I'm using Windows 10 Pro and I am trying to understand why windows disk repair might not work.
If I right-click on my C: drive and select properties/tools/check it tells me the disk has errors.
For a ...
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chkdsk forever writing to the Bad Clusters File?
I need some guidance with a mysterious behavior of the Windows 7's chkdsk on a 500 GB NTFS partition of a Seagate Barracuda 3 TB connected to a Samsung Story Station.
chkdsk seems to freeze towards ...
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What `chkdsk` verifies and what it does not verify? [duplicate]
What kind of problems chkdsk can identify? Are there any disk problems that chkdsk cannot identify and will mark a malfunctioning storage device as a healthy one? Are there cases when I would need to ...
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Is it sufficient to refresh an archival external HDD with chkdsk?
Some background:
I have been helping my uncle, a photographer, maintain a system of storage for all his work (Terrabytes of images!).
We do this by using two external hard drives for his data ...
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