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Thousands of bad clusters discovered by chkdsk on external HDD
2 days ago, during download, uTorrent started to throw CRC error (write), i resumed failing download multiple times with no luck(same error appeared again and again just in few seconds/minutes), then ...
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Determine which files are stored in bad sectors
I ran CHKDSK last night (log below) and noticed that apparently I have 4 KB of data stored in bad sectors. Is there a way to find out which files are stored in (or at least are partially stored) in ...
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Is my hard drive in the process of becoming faulty?
There was no lead up symptoms to what I'm currently going through with my home machine. What happened was;
Casual non intensive usage on the machine, then everything locked up and would not resume ...
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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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CHKDSK finds no errors but drive keeps on failing
So here is the problem: I have an external disk that I use to store all the archived data, e.g. photos, movies, etc. The drive is formatted as NTFS, and checking the Disk Management tool from the ...
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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 HDD not detected
I have Seagate Expansion Portable Drive Model: SRD00F1 which is out of warranty unfortunately. There were problems in it which I was trying to fix.
From these Problems that have been trying to fix ...
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Windows 8 hang on startup and chkdsk /f /r
Trying to fix a friends Lenovo p400 laptop. The drive is a samsung spin point one terabyte drive.
The system hangs during booting, will go into system recovery, or the uefi firmware settings screen.
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HDD bad sectors - chkdsk versus hdtune
I bought new HDD WD Blue (WDC WD10EZEX) as a secondary storage media (no RAID or anything, just a bunch of big video files on NTFS). There were a few problems at the beginning, Windows freezed at ...
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XP SP2 hangs on logo screen, running chkdsk /p /r now hanging
I have a windows xp sp 2 on a toshiba laptop, Ive been using it for many years.
The other day it hung on the windows logo and would only start in safemode.
I did a best configuration, restore, then ...
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Copying files from failing hard drive
Unable to boot to windows 7, running rescue disk, using C: prompt. I can see the windows partition(C:) but not rest of drive (E:),no access or dir. CHKDSK E: says there are errors in "index $130 for ...
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Is CHKDSK stalling?
I have a Lenovo Y510p running on Win8.1. I've tried running a CHKDSK on boot but power issues with the charger meant it died while it was running(11%).
I tried SHIFT+F8 to try restarting into safe ...
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Disk Error on a Dell Notebook with Windows 8.1 “The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.”
Recently my computer freezes for minutes and after reboot I see in the Event Viewer many Errors such as "The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block."
I have run chkdsk c:/R/B and chkdsk c:/...
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CHKDSK stuck on USN Journal
I ran a chkdsk on my failing 3TB WD Green and it's been 18 hours since it ran. It's now frozen on verifying the USN journal. See picture:
Seeing as it's frozen, can I unplug my hard drive?
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Why? - Win 8.1 chkdsk runs each bootup against hidden 450MB recovery partition
This problem won't be easy...be warned.
Windows 8.1 x64 (installed as Windows 8.1, not as an upgrade) with ALL updates installed and working perfectly (as per event log viewer) ...two days ago.
There ...
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