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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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Can you stop a chkdsk operation on a usb drive? [duplicate]
This is an external WD 1TB drive. It is attached to a Dell Optiplex 745 running windows xp, sp 3 with only 4 GB of RAM. is there anyway to stop chkdsk on this drive without hurting the file structure ...
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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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Windows refuses to scan SSD disk
In the last weeks my Windows 10 pc has been throwing blue screens (Multiple times a day). Viewing the Event Viewer I've found that all crashes are related to this error:
So I run the chkdsk command ...
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Check health of Set Top Box HDD
My Set Top Box is acting weird (image frozen after a while, specially if I rewind a transmission) so I suspect it's the HDD that could be faulty and because of the Coronavirus pandemic I don't want to ...
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How many reparse records are a lot?
My computer is acting strangely, slowing and freezing or partially freezing (some applications but not all) fairly often; it has blue screened 3 times in three weeks; I had at least one NTFS error. I ...
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Can resizing a partition give chkdsk more clusters for recovery?
chkdsk /f /r is showing "The disk does not have enough space to replace bad clusters". I know I need to replace the drive, but some files were not readable when I went to copy the data off. Would ...
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How to disable automatic CHKDSK of new drives at Windows 7 startup?
Windows 7 seems to automatically performs a CHKDSK of any new hard-drive installed in a computer at startup (before login screen).
There is a way to skip that by pressing a key but you have to be ...
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The file or Directory is corrupted and unreadable - chkdsk not working
Unintentionally powered off external HDD when moving some files with the move command. Now the move target folder is "The file or Directory is corrupted and unreadable".
chkdsk E: /f /r /x
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Cannot run Parallels Transporter Agent due to disk errors
I'm trying to clone my old Windows 7 machine to a Parallels VM image, but the Parallels Transporter Agent refuses to work because of disk errors.
I've run chkdsk c: /R /F multiple times, but every ...
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One of the partitions of my hard drive shows its empty after booting after a forced shutdown,
TL;DR: Computer was forces shut down, came back to an empty drive (the other partition of that same disk is fine) but the properties window says its 899GB / 1TB used, tried chkdsk and all can't seem ...
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Can I run chkdsk for different HDDs at the same time (external via USB)?
I want to run multiple chkdsk commands (for different HDDs)
at the same time.
All of them are external via USB.
I searched for this on Google, but there were few results
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chkdsk generates undeletable corrupt FILE0000.CHK files on exFAT drive
J:/FOUND.000/FILE0000.CHK is corrupt and not deleteable.
C:\> del J:\FOUND.000\FILE0000.CHK
J:\FOUND.000\FILE0000.CHK
The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.
Running chkdsk /F J: ...
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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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