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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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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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Transcend 1TB could not complete chkdsk
I have 1TB Transcend External HDD around 2 years old. In the HDD, there are 3 Partition:-
i) Local Disk (J:) [~90GB] - exFAT
ii) Local Disk (E:) [~400GB] - NTFS
iii) Local Disk (H:) [~488GB] - NTFS
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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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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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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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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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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 /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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So I found and marked some bad clusters—now what?
I don't know exactly why, but hard drive failure happens to me quite often. This time around, three out of my eight drives failed almost at the same time (two HDDs and one SSD).
I still don't know ...
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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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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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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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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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