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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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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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In chkdsk, what is an online scan?
Running Windows 8.0 Pro, chkdsk has a /scan option that Runs a online scan on the volume (sic). What is an online scan?
My guess is that it runs it while letting you use the drive, which is good if ...
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Bad Sectors on Hard Drive
I run check disk pretty regularly on my hard drive, and lately it's been saying that I have some bad sectores (66, to be exact). I've run smartctl and HD Tune. Both tell me that I have bad sectors and ...
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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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How often should I run CHKDSK? [closed]
For as long as I remember, I've been running CHKDSK once a month. However, with the advent of the "modern" operating system (i.e., Windows 7), I wonder if that's still necessary. Could I do it once a ...
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Windows chkdsk replaced bad cluster - are files now corrupted?
I ran chkdsk on a drive and when it got to stage 4 (verifying file data), this message appeared for some files:
Windows replaced bad clusters in file ######
of name \path\filename.ext
Does this mean ...
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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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Chkdsk consistently failing due to no free space but it has 90% free space
I have a drive that I suspect is a bit borked but none of the sensors or alerts have gone off on it. Regardless I decided to move important files out of it before replacing it.
But any move ...
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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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Is there any option to quickly scan an entire hard drive for bad blocks?
I have a 1 TB HDD so I want to test for bad sectors or bad blocks but badblocks takes a LOT of time in Linux (barely 4.66% done in 6 hours 3 minutes). In Windows however chkdsk scans in a few seconds ...
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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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Chkdsk An unspecified error occurred 6c6f6766696c652e 29c
UPDATE: It was a bad SATA cable.
I ran the chkdsk /R command on an external WD 1TB hardrive connected via SATA. Here is the output log from chkdsk from event viewer. Not sure what the error message ...
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Is my "Generic" USB Flash Drive broken?
So here is the situation. I find myself technological knowledgeable about many things ( I love to code, whether it's websites, C#, C++ or so on). However:
My 2 toddlers (my wife actually) bought me a ...
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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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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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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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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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After installing Windows 7, CHKDSK has ruined my Windows 10 HDD
Pretty much the title.
I installed Windows 7 Ultimate the other day, after getting bored with Windows 10. I installed Win 7 on a 465 GB HDD, while Win 10 was on a 232 GB HDD, label D:\ .
After ...
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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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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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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 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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Who can explain the new options of chdsk on Windows 8/10?
Who can explain the new options of chdsk on Windows 8/10 ?
The new options are
1./scan
2./forceofflinefix
3./perf
4./spotfix
5./sdcleanup
6./offlinescanandfix
7./freeorphanedchains
8./markclean
I ...
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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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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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CHKDSK fails in Windows 10 but ok in Windows 7
I have an old SSHD (Hybrid) 2.5" drive from my old Macbook which I wanted to reuse. So I decided to backup its NTFS volumes on Windows 10 Home but when I mounted it complained that it needed to check ...
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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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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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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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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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What does it mean if chkdsk runs for several days?
I ran into a problem where my Windows 8 computer all of a sudden ran really slowly. After opening up Task Manager, I noticed that 50% Disk Activity was being used, even though the total of all the ...
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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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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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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.
Update
I ran SpinRite 6 overnight and it got nowhere. Stayed at 0% for the whole ...
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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 ...
