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How and when to interrupt CHKDSK?
My Lenovo Z50 laptop has been giving me problems, so I set it to run CHKDSK /f /r /x when I rebooted.
Several hours later, it's stuck at 12%. The dots are circling, so I suspect I should let it ...
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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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Will "chkdsk /r" scan the free area of harddisk for physical damages?
From microsoft documentation of chkdsk command, it has the following commonly used switches:
/f
Fixes errors on the disk. The disk must be locked. If chkdsk cannot lock the drive, a message ...
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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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"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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How to generate disk errors that are then repaired by Check Disk (chkdsk) [closed]
I need to "break" things so that the Check Disk tool in Windows finds errors on a partition. Any ideas on how to do that in a controlled manner?
What can I do to make sure that chkdsk finds errors ...
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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 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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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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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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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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Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check) during hard drive format?
I received a new HDD from my uncle, RAW file system. Tried CHKDSK, but it didn't work because of the RAW file system.
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I ran SpinRite 6 overnight and it got nowhere. Stayed at 0% for the whole ...
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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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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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