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Disk doesn't format, chkdsk hangs after "The type of the file system is FAT32"
I bought a brand new USB stick. Because I needed a file on it bigger than 4 GB, I had to reformat it. So I attempted that. The progress bar stood grey for 10 minutes before I gave up.
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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.
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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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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
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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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Disk Error on a Dell Notebook with Windows 8.1 “The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.”
Recently my computer freezes for minutes and after reboot I see in the Event Viewer many Errors such as "The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block."
I have run chkdsk c:/R/B and chkdsk c:/...
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Why? - Win 8.1 chkdsk runs each bootup against hidden 450MB recovery partition
This problem won't be easy...be warned.
Windows 8.1 x64 (installed as Windows 8.1, not as an upgrade) with ALL updates installed and working perfectly (as per event log viewer) ...two days ago.
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