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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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Output disparity on Chkdsk and Drive Properties
I recently noticed that one of my drives is having issues and I suspect it may be failing. Apps on this drive are slow to load (sometimes wont load at all and freeze), and any game that is on this ...
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How to permanantly disable CHKDSK
I have a 128GB flash drive with Windows 7 installed on it using WinToUSB. I use my pendrive in my home PC to sync my files and also in another PC where there's no keyboard. The problem is, on every ...
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CHKDSK /R turns Perfect HDD Seagate 3TB to 0.7TB (marks the rest has bad)
Before I explain the problem, let me tell you what's not the problem. I don't have problems formatting or seeing the drive has 3TB, so please avoid this issue.
So, now the problem. I had this drive ...
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How to identify file by "File Record Segment"?
How to actually identify files by "File Record Segment" addresses as reported by chkdsk?
There was a blackout and my drives' filesystems were corrupted, the hardware and operating system ...
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How to see all files affected by chkdsk?
A few weeks ago my home lost power while my computer is on. Recently I have encountered some problems.
So I did a full system check, I used SeaTools for Windows and all drives passed S.M.A.R.T check, ...
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Disk Malfunctioned But They All Disappeared - Is This Disk Still Trustworthy?
I have encountered a situation I have never seen before. I recently bought an Seagate One Touch 5TB external HDD, and to ensure it would store data properly, I tried to run chkdsk. However before that,...
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Is it possible to pause chkdsk and continue it later? [duplicate]
Is there any way to pause chkdsk then shutdown the computer then boot it up again and resume from where it was paused?
the full story is hard drive keeps disconnecting and reconnecting so i wanted to ...
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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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Disk became RAW after chkdsk operation
After chkdsk detected a wrong index entry and acted, a disk became RAW.
With diskpart, trying to clean it before formatting yields:
DISKPART> clean
DiskPart has encountered an error: The device is ...
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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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drive is not accessible chkdsk raw [duplicate]
So I have this D drive on my Dell laptop having important information, and it said first it's not accessible, then I did the chkdsk D: /f /r and it said the drive is RAW, thus no chkdsk, what the best ...
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CHKDISK on boot detects corrupt attribute records - what should we do now?
Running an 8-year old desktop PC with Windows 7, AMD Phenom II X4 965 Processor 3.40GHz, 4GB RAM, with a Samsung HD103SJ ATA hard disk (920Gb).
Used fairly lightly by one user for most of those 8 ...
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Run sfc /scannow or chkdsk /f first
Is it better to run ChkDsk /f first, then Sfc /ScanNow or is it better to run the other way around, and does it matter which is run first, as I see no guides online saying which is the best option?
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Win 10 CHKDSK /F /R /X skipping to login
Tried to run CHKDSK /F /R /X this morning, unfortunately, after restarting to begin the process I get the press any button to skip part (I don't press anything) and it moves onto repairing C drive, ...
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The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\DR3: which disk corresponds in Computer Management?
In Windows 10 64-bit, I went to Event Viewer saw this error:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\DR3
I looked in Computer Management > Disk Management, but not sure which ...
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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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Full physical hd check
I would like to run a full, sector-by-sector, physical check on some external hard drives. As far as I know,chkdsk does not supply this option.
Is there a workaround under chkdsk, or a good ...
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CHKDSK - Drive unusable after the scan
Drive is unusable after the CHKDSK scan. Any idea how I can fix this? It shows that the device is a raw device. I want to recover data and then format the drive.
File record segment 1432 is unreadable....
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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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Hard Drive Failure? - Reallocated Sector Count
I recently noticed Windows was extremely slow and some programs failed to run.
The hard disk is checked during boot randomly. Sometimes checks go to Stage 5: 100s of thousands of sectors.
After a ...
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Chkdsk for a specific directory or File !?!? The Syntax
I need help to chkdsk a specific Directory : F:\GOG\*.*
I am too stupid to understand the chkdsk sytax for file:
CHKDSK [Volume[[Pfad]Dateiname]]] [/F] [/V] [/R] [/X] [/I] [/C] [/L[:Größe]][/B] [/scan]...
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Chkdsk Questions
Recently in running chkdsk /r on my system drive (platter drive, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit) I've gotten back results like:
4 EA records processed
76 reparse records processed
Am I right in assuming ...
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Basic SSD disk corrupted after a clean Windows reformat
As the title stated, I've been using the disk (Adata SU650) for quite a long time and never had issues with it until lately I clean reformatted my PC and realized during the initial setup there's a ...
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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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How exactly does stage 5 in chkdsk /r work?
Stages 1-4 are mostly read only unless errors are found, but I'm more curious about stage 5, where it checks unused space for issues. How does that determine if a sector is bad? Does it write to the ...
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Windows recovery show disks as RAW, can't run CHKDSK, but Linux sees them normally
My disk is dying (increasing Reallocated Sectors Count) but every time CHKDSK fixed everything untill next time and I'd like to continue like this as long as possible, given that I know all risks and ...
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NTFS, chkdsk, check bad sectors and recover readable parts for only specified files?
It is a large disk and it seems all files but a few are readable. For the few files, reading fails at the same point. Something like position 1.5GB of a 5GB file. The SMART data does show ...
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How to delete fake bad sectors from hard disk?
I have a portable 5TB HDD. I was downloading data on it and it was 3/4 (or so, almost full) full with documents.
I did chkdsk /f /v /r /x just to check it. It was shown to be perfect in HDD Sentinel ...
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How to know if CHKDSK is still running?
I am trying to repair one of my disks with CHKDSK. Unfortunately, I get the following message:
"corruption was found while examining the volume bitmap"
Now, I don't know if it is still ...
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chkdsk doesn't repair the file system corruption I have, now what?
Operating system is Windows XP w/SP3. While running Paragon Disk Wiper, to clean the unused portion of my system partition of garbage, it belches and comes up with this error "Incorrect dir structure -...
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How to chkdsk completely unattended
have a question about scheduling chkdsk: I'm running chkdsk on task scheduler in windows 7 for my main hardrive (where windows is installed) using the following
command: echo y|chkdsk /f /r.
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Reconstruct a found.000 corrupted harddrive
On Windows 10. I have a spinning disk hard drive which was corrupted by a bad external docking unit and has a left me a found.000 folder, inside are about 250 folders called dir0001.chk - dir0250.chk....
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Bad sectors vs spare/reserve sectors and how the OS and disk interpret them
From what I understand, there are two fundamental ways sectors are marked bad:
OS performs IO read/write instruction. The sector is replaced with a spare and marked bad.
Disk's low-level instructions ...
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Is it possible that some recovered files after chkdsk scan may be corrupted?
would like to ask if files recovered from faulty HDD, after chkdsk scan (before it was not possible to copy them) may have been corrupted, despite being possible to copy them all (again; after chkdsk ...
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How to repair master file table (MFT) mirror, even after formatting?
(Note: this is not a duplicate of Insufficient disk space to repair master file table (MFT) mirror, since that didn't have an answer and that issue was fixed by reformatting the disk.)
I'm trying to ...
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CHKDSK: "A disk read error occurredc0000010" on external USB HDD 3.0
I have a external HDD toshiba hdtb310xk3aa (1TB), and I have used it for a couple of years as storage for a Xbox One (Xbox HDD format), but from a couple of months I formatted it to NTFS to used it in ...
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chkdsk An unspecified error occurred (696e647863686b2e 20e4) & (6672732e637878 5e4) also missing from defragmenter
I keep running chkdsk on my HDD (it's a disk for games) but it keep failing in one way or another and need to it ever time it starts up.
I've got several pastebins of chkdsk I've done, these are 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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Is it possible to overuse chkdsk?
I perform a chkdsk /f/v/sdcleanup/perf/scan every time I use an external USB drive or hard disk drive — and on my internal drives — every time I copy or delete a big file (size more than 1GB) only to ...
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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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Why might chkdsk not be able to repair a disk?
I'm using Windows 10 Pro and I am trying to understand why windows disk repair might not work.
If I right-click on my C: drive and select properties/tools/check it tells me the disk has errors.
For a ...
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chkdsk forever writing to the Bad Clusters File?
I need some guidance with a mysterious behavior of the Windows 7's chkdsk on a 500 GB NTFS partition of a Seagate Barracuda 3 TB connected to a Samsung Story Station.
chkdsk seems to freeze towards ...
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What `chkdsk` verifies and what it does not verify? [duplicate]
What kind of problems chkdsk can identify? Are there any disk problems that chkdsk cannot identify and will mark a malfunctioning storage device as a healthy one? Are there cases when I would need to ...
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Is it sufficient to refresh an archival external HDD with chkdsk?
Some background:
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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Can you stop a chkdsk operation on a usb drive? [duplicate]
This is an external WD 1TB drive. It is attached to a Dell Optiplex 745 running windows xp, sp 3 with only 4 GB of RAM. is there anyway to stop chkdsk on this drive without hurting the file structure ...
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Windows refuses to scan SSD disk
In the last weeks my Windows 10 pc has been throwing blue screens (Multiple times a day). Viewing the Event Viewer I've found that all crashes are related to this error:
So I run the chkdsk command ...
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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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External Hard Disk is not accessible. "The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable"
I have a 1 TB AgentGoFlex Seagate external HDD.
Lately it was causing some issues like a few folders which had data were not showing any files. A few folders were not opening, etc.
So I tried ...
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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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