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After installing Windows 7, CHKDSK has ruined my Windows 10 HDD

Pretty much the title. I installed Windows 7 Ultimate the other day, after getting bored with Windows 10. I installed Win 7 on a 465 GB HDD, while Win 10 was on a 232 GB HDD, label D:\ . After ...
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Who can explain the new options of chdsk on Windows 8/10?

Who can explain the new options of chdsk on Windows 8/10 ? The new options are 1./scan 2./forceofflinefix 3./perf 4./spotfix 5./sdcleanup 6./offlinescanandfix 7./freeorphanedchains 8./markclean I ...
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CHKDSK fails in Windows 10 but ok in Windows 7

I have an old SSHD (Hybrid) 2.5" drive from my old Macbook which I wanted to reuse. So I decided to backup its NTFS volumes on Windows 10 Home but when I mounted it complained that it needed to check ...
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External HD defrag stuck at 0% consolidated - due to discrepancy?

I have an Acer laptop running windows 10. I have tried multiple times to defragment my external Hard Drive (Seagate) but every time it gets stuck 0% consolidated. I have run CHKDSK and I am posting ...
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Identify file name(s) associated with chkdsk corrupt file record segments

I have a Dell XPS15, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, Windows 10. The following are the results from CHKDSK read-only: The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is OS. WARNING! /F parameter not ...
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chkdsk An unspecified error occurred (696e647863686b2e 20e4) & (6672732e637878 5e4) also missing from defragmenter

I keep running chkdsk on my HDD (it's a disk for games) but it keep failing in one way or another and need to it ever time it starts up. I've got several pastebins of chkdsk I've done, these are the ...
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How to repair master file table (MFT) mirror, even after formatting?

(Note: this is not a duplicate of Insufficient disk space to repair master file table (MFT) mirror, since that didn't have an answer and that issue was fixed by reformatting the disk.) I'm trying to ...
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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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Windows refuses to scan SSD disk

In the last weeks my Windows 10 pc has been throwing blue screens (Multiple times a day). Viewing the Event Viewer I've found that all crashes are related to this error: So I run the chkdsk command ...
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Recurring portable drive error: 'The sparse flag in standard information attribute in file _______ is not set.'

I have a portable drive that often slows Windows 10 boot. When performing an error check on this drive as recommended after booting (Properties->Tools->Error checking), it will say errors were found ...
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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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Why might chkdsk not be able to repair a disk?

I'm using Windows 10 Pro and I am trying to understand why windows disk repair might not work. If I right-click on my C: drive and select properties/tools/check it tells me the disk has errors. For a ...
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Reconstruct a found.000 corrupted harddrive

On Windows 10. I have a spinning disk hard drive which was corrupted by a bad external docking unit and has a left me a found.000 folder, inside are about 250 folders called dir0001.chk - dir0250.chk....
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Win 10 CHKDSK /F /R /X skipping to login

Tried to run CHKDSK /F /R /X this morning, unfortunately, after restarting to begin the process I get the press any button to skip part (I don't press anything) and it moves onto repairing C drive, ...
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Unable to copy any file to external HDD

I have WD My Passport 4TB External Hard Drive. When I try to copy any file to WD HDD, it gives me error: "Cant read from the source file or disk". But I can copy any file in HDD to my laptop....
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