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CHKDSK from a USB
I am currently on the GParted Live CD, and it is telling me that I have to run CHKDSK /f
I am more that happy to do that, but I cannot boot into windows, and I do not have a Windows Recovery disk ...
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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 get more information about repeatedly corruptions of a NTFS filesystem?
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The problem I'll describe occures just recently on my Laptop, running Ubuntu and Win7. Ubuntu is installed on a SSD, and the additional HDD contains the Win7 installation (which ...
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Is it sufficient to refresh an archival external HDD with chkdsk?
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I have been helping my uncle, a photographer, maintain a system of storage for all his work (Terrabytes of images!).
We do this by using two external hard drives for his data ...
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What does it likely mean if I have to run CHKDSK every few weeks?
Every few weeks my computer will become unusably slow with lots of error messages e.g. "this or that has stopped working", or just won't boot into windows. I use the Windows Diagnostics / Fix utility ...
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How to fix NTFS MFT if chkdsk hangs?
Once my external has became too slow I've ran chkdsk /f. And it has found no problems. Next time (in a day approximately) I've ran it it still found no problems in files, indices and security ...
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Slow file operations, possible I/O error but chkdsk says OK
I've recently faced a strange problem. I use Directory Opus file manager that suddenly started to report an I/O error when trying to copy files onto one of my disks. The Windows Explorer did copy ...
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Macbook pro hard drive not recognized by any means after using chkdsk /r on bootcamp
Good afternoon everyone,
Here is my headache:
I have (had?) a macbook pro late 2011 wtih bootcamp running in Win 7, the bootcamp partition started to give problems (corrupted data I recon) so I ...
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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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How to remove bad sectors information from cloned partition?
When some bad sectors ( literally 5 ) appeared on my previous HDD, I decided to replace it. I decided to clone whole drive using dd (run from GPartEd) in do-not-stop-on-read-error mode. That is:
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Run CHKDSK on Disk other than disk 0?
I have three disks on my system, and one is a laptop disk that may be bad in a SATA enclosure hooked by USB 2. It is disk 1 in Windows (of disk 0, disk 1, and disk 2). I would love to run CHKDSK on ...
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Chkdsk hangs at "chkdsk is verifying usn journal..."
I'm trying to recover some data off a crashed hard drive using Windows System Recovery. Startup Repair just hangs for days (yes, literally) with no disk activity. So, I'm trying to run chkdsk c: /f ...
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How did chkdsk repair a failing drive (ntfs) that was even flapping in the bios? [closed]
One of my client PC's blue screened overnight and wouldn't boot.
The system post was hanging also for about 10 seconds trying to find the drive.
System would not boot afterwards saying "inaccessible ...
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How do we tell from the log of a chkdsk, check success or fail?
I did a chkdsk C: /r and this is what I had from event viewer:
Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is ACER.
A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now ...
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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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