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Unable to copy any file to external HDD
I have WD My Passport 4TB External Hard Drive. When I try to copy any file to WD HDD, it gives me error: "Cant read from the source file or disk". But I can copy any file in HDD to my laptop....
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How to fix the Data error (cyclic redundancy check) on a smartphone?
I regularly transfer data from my (Android) smartphone to my (Windows 10) PC / NAS. For that I simply connect th ePC and the smartphone via USB and cut&paste the files to the PC or directly to 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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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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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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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
Failed ...
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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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"chkdsk /r" to confirm no error OR "chkdsk /f" to avoid heavy loading to HDD?
Recently I got "Reallocation Event Count" (C4) warning in SMART test for my notebook harddisk(HDD). I've cloned the whole HDD sector-by-sector to a brand new one using a external HDD docking.
Then I ...
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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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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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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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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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