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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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How can I calculate how many "free clusters" my 1.0 TB hard drive contains? (I am running chkdsk and it's taking forever..!)
How can I calculate the number of free clusters that exist on a freshly formateed NTFS 1.0 TB hard drive?
I began running chkdsk (osn an external USB connected hard drive) about 12 hours ago and it ...
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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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In CHKDSK - is a BAD CLUSTER a permanent issue or a temporary one?
First time I've had CHKDSK errors on a Toshiba HD and I'm not sure if I need to replace the drive or not. Its a prime drive with my OS so its a big task to clone and replace (for me!) so I'm wondering ...
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Is CHKDSK a warning sign of failing drive?
This morning CHKDSK ran on its own during boot. It scanned 1 out of 3 HDDs in my PC. Is it a warning sign that that particular HDD is about die?
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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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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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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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Hard disk has one foot out the door. What should I do?
My computer has always had a loud (Fujitsu) hard drive drive. Since I bought it in 2007, its ticking has been noticeable during normal activity.
Increasingly, it's made loud CLACK sounds (every now-...
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External HD defrag stuck at 0% consolidated - due to discrepancy?
I have an Acer laptop running windows 10.
I have tried multiple times to defragment my external Hard Drive (Seagate) but every time it gets stuck 0% consolidated.
I have run CHKDSK and I am posting ...
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Disk Mirror Failed After Clean Windows Reformat
I don't remember the specification of my late windows 11 but my HDD disk was working perfectly fine despite not having been defrag for a couple of months.
Recently I reformatted my PC with a new ...
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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
that were really relevant to ...
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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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Identify file name(s) associated with chkdsk corrupt file record segments
I have a Dell XPS15, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, Windows 10.
The following are the results from CHKDSK read-only:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is OS.
WARNING! /F parameter not ...
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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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