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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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