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Can you stop a chkdsk operation on a usb drive? [duplicate]
This is an external WD 1TB drive. It is attached to a Dell Optiplex 745 running windows xp, sp 3 with only 4 GB of RAM. is there anyway to stop chkdsk on this drive without hurting the file structure ...
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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
Each ...
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XP SP2 hangs on logo screen, running chkdsk /p /r now hanging
I have a windows xp sp 2 on a toshiba laptop, Ive been using it for many years.
The other day it hung on the windows logo and would only start in safemode.
I did a best configuration, restore, then ...
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How did chkdsk repair a failing drive (ntfs) that was even flapping in the bios? [closed]
One of my client PC's blue screened overnight and wouldn't boot.
The system post was hanging also for about 10 seconds trying to find the drive.
System would not boot afterwards saying "inaccessible ...
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chkdsk won't work on secondary drive
I have a secondary drive in a USB caddy attached to my WinXP SP3 laptop.
Occasionally I will receive a system tray warning that the 2nd drive contains errors, and to run chkdsk.
The drive is NTFS, but ...
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diagnose "corrupt file" problems
My computer has been crashing the last couple weeks pretty regularly (at least once a day). A lot of times things I do will display a little notification in the bottom right saying something about a ...
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XP CHKDSK finds error when run in OS or safe mode, but does not find errors using /F on restart
I have an XP system that reports "CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap" when CHKDSK is run from the normal XP environment or from command-line safe mode.
When I ...
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chkdsk doesn't repair the file system corruption I have, now what?
Operating system is Windows XP w/SP3. While running Paragon Disk Wiper, to clean the unused portion of my system partition of garbage, it belches and comes up with this error "Incorrect dir structure -...
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