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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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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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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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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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Is old hard drive dead?
So a couple of days ago my 3 year old laptop with win7 was acting up (programs didn't respond etc.) so I've decided to run a chkdsk, however this turned out to be a bad idea since it stalled at one ...
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CHKDSK finds no errors but drive keeps on failing
So here is the problem: I have an external disk that I use to store all the archived data, e.g. photos, movies, etc. The drive is formatted as NTFS, and checking the Disk Management tool from the ...
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Windows 8 hang on startup and chkdsk /f /r
Trying to fix a friends Lenovo p400 laptop. The drive is a samsung spin point one terabyte drive.
The system hangs during booting, will go into system recovery, or the uefi firmware settings screen.
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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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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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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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