Questions tagged [check-disk]
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How should I understand "Current Pending Sector Count" in CrystalDiskInfo reports?
My USB disks keeps showing (after each Check Disk pass) keeps informing me about new clusters added to Bad Clusters File:
but it does not list them as "damaged sectors" in disk summary:
and thus I wasn't 100% sure, if this is normal situation or…
trejder
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How to recover folder converted to file by check disk?
After turning on my computer, check disk checked my flash drive and converted corrupted folder to a file.
How can I recover data from converted folder?
Below is the message I found in bootex.log file on my hard drive after conversion…
Piotr Dobrogost
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Running a Check-Disk (Is it dangerous)
I have a lap top that a friend of mine would like me to fix. It is giving a blue screen on boot up. When I looked up the error message it indicates that I should run a check disk.
Is this dangerous? Should I try to off load stuff from the hard…
Vaccano
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How can I force a disk check when Windows 7 reports "Disk checking has been cancelled"?
I have scheduled a disk check on my C drive. It can't check the disk immediately, because it is in use, so it schedules the disk check for the next reboot. However, when I dutifully reboot, the disk check doesn't happen.
I found some instructions…
lofidevops
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How can I run Windows Check Disk without being Prompted?
The Windows 7 backup tool is telling me I have a bad index. How can I run Checkdisk without being prompted at boot?
C. Ross
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Checking file system all the time when I reboot Windows 7
Recently, I have my Windows 7 checking file system all the time when I reboot/boot it. I already run the check many times, but the message keeps popping.
The message is
checking file system on C:
Th type of the file system is NTFS.
One of your…
prosseek
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Live tools for hard disk check, repair and reformat
In the old days, I had a floppy with CHCKDSK and other tools for checking hard disk failures, repairing them and, if necessary, reformating them. I recently tried to reinstall XP on an old computer, but got errors related to the hard disk. The XP…
Joris Meys
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How to check whether HDD is new or used?
I have bought a Hitachi UltraStar 7K3000, a 3 TB internal drive. It was sold not in the box but in some kind of plastic parcel that was closed. Manufactured in Thailand, March 2012 - so it's 6 years old.
How can I check the health of it and if it…
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Hard disk with bad clusters
I have been trying to backup some files up to DVD recently, and the burn process failed saying the CRC check failed for certain files. I then tried to browse to these files in Windows Explorer my whole machine locks up and I have to reboot.
I ran…
Dan
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How can I check my SSD without any OS installed?
I have a laptop with no OS installed, I try to install Ubuntu but it seems to found an error and it can't be installed. I have make some other checks without errors, and now I want to check the SSD.
I have bought SSD for 3 months, so I don't think…
Genethic
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iPod "scan and fix" message in Windows 7
Everytime I plug in my iPod Windows 7 says it has problems and do i want to scan and fix. How do I disable this? I know my iPod is in good shape.
craigmoliver
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Gradual Disk Errors
I am having an intermittent problem with my computer where programs start freezing up. What generally happens is that certain programs stop responding entirely, and are impossible to kill via the task manager (almost always iTunes and my backup…
tghw
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WinXP: File Record Segment nnnn is unreadable?
I'm pretty sure that the drive is toast, except for the fact that this error is only showing up on one partition (it's out of a Dell computer, and has a couple of Dell partitions, which boot and work fine.)
I've already purchased another hard drive,…
chris
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Where is the boot-time diskchk log in windows 7?
When Windows 7 does a disk check on boot time, where is the log afterwards? In the old times (XP) there was a log in the root directory, and even a special directory where the lost clusters were placed. Where is all this under win7?
Cray
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XP disk check runs every time I boot
Every time I boot my computer XP checks my backup partition (it is NTFS) for errors, this has become really annoying because my computer is old-ish (5+ years) and I don't leave it on like I used to.
Is there any way I can disable the disk check, or…
Adrian de Anda
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