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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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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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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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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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The file or Directory is corrupted and unreadable - chkdsk not working

Unintentionally powered off external HDD when moving some files with the move command. Now the move target folder is "The file or Directory is corrupted and unreadable". chkdsk E: /f /r /x Failed ...
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External Hard Drive not accessible Raw in disk management but ntfs detect when lauch chckdisk

I can't access my external hard drive. it's looks like a corrupted filesystem problem but I don't know how to fix it. please fine bellow my chkdsk log. PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> chkdsk /f d: The ...
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Is there a way to recover bad sectors in Windows 8.1?

I have a drive that is going bad. chkdsk /r fails to repair the sectors. It gets stuck at 16% for hours upon boot, and finally gives a blue screen saying I have to use recovery media. However, it will ...
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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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Raw reading USB mass storage or SCSI

Wife's USB HDD has a slight issue where a folder refuses to open (NTFS filesystem). I have been able to image the drive with Linux but for one sector (sectors are 4096 bytes). Reading that sector ...
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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 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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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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