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Hard drive messed up after dual install of windows 10

I installed windows 10 on Hard Drive B (HDB). Then plugged in Hard Drive A (HDA) so I could copy over some files. It prompted me that I needed admin access to access the files so I clicked continue. ...
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A Drive Becomes Not Accessible on Every Boot

I have 2 physical disks connected to my PC, both of them are Bitlocker encrypted. After I boot into Windows, I'm able to Bitlocker-unlock drive D:\ (2nd physical SSD connected via SATA 3) normally, ...
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what are the signs that a check disk/disk repair is not working?

I'm trying to understand whether the current state of my Windows 10 PC should be interrupted and force a reboot. I see an arrow cursor on my screen with a black background, and if I move the mouse, ...
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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 ...
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Upon reading a chkdsk log, how to determine if bad sectors were analyzed?

I have performed a chkdsk on one of my external hdd's I'm not sure however if bad sectors were checked as well (chkdsk /r) How can I be sure they were checked if I don't remember the command line I ...
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Which partition does this chkdsk message refers to?

I have a "bad sectored" hard drive and going to back up its data, i decided to run chkdsk /f /r command for fixing errors on most problematic partition and making disk stable for a while. but while ...
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Connect Windows 10 license to installed Windows 10

I recently bought a new desktop that came with Windows 7 Pro. After upgrading to Windows 10 and installing an SSD by partitioning the hard drive and making an image of the most important part, I have ...
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Is it better to run checkdisk on a secondary driver?

I want to run checkdisk on my main driver. However, is it better to run it on a computer where I install it as a secondary drive? My point is that if the program is running on the same hardrive on ...
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Laptop freezing randomly — HDD light turns off

I have a GP62X Leopard Pro laptop from MSI. I had it for about two months and then it randomly started to have moments where it would freeze for a few seconds or would look as if it was running at 3 ...
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Where to find Windows checkdisk log? [duplicate]

I was trying to make a check disk for my Drive C but it gave me a message that the disk will be checked in the next restart and this what really happened. Where can I find the results or log of this ...
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Explorer tells me that 'There is already a file with the same name in this location', but there isn't

When I tried to rename a file(the extension was some random text, Windows Disk Check caused it) in Windows Explorer, it told me that there's another file with the same name in the same location, as in ...
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How do I know which files were corrupted/checked by chkdsk?

One of my drives disappeared and was checked when I restarted Windows 7 64. Previously this has happened and I found that some of my MP3's and other files had been badly repaired with wrong and ...
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What precisely causes "You need to format the disk in drive X:"?

I get this message on an XP machine and the drive is an internal hard disk. I checkdisked, got a few file clusters fixed and the problem seems to be gone. Can a problem local to a few clusters ...
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How can the scan & repair feature upon boot be skipped/aborted/otherwise sped up?

A Windows 10 computer sometimes automatically initiates a scan and repair process upon booting. I think this normally happens when Windows was not properly shut down before. One of our computers now ...
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Test full hard drive on Windows 10

In the past I used to do (some times) full hard drive checks that tested not only the filesystem but the whole hard drive. It was a process that could take a while. Recently I wanted to do that with ...
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My Laptop became extremely slow and found error with hard disk

I am using Dell Inspiron N5010 (windows 8). It was working fine, suddenly it became extremely slow. So I had restored my laptop to a previous Restore Point. After restoring I got this error message. ...
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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 ...
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Checkdisk says volume is clean. What does it mean?

I ran check disk today, on a Windows x64 machine on an NTFS disk: chkdsk /f /r When it was finished, it says the volume is clean. What does this mean? I've never seen this screen before when I run ...
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Microsoft disk integrity tools like ScanDisk, CheckDisk, and Error-Checking? How do they differ? [closed]

There's been something I've been curious about regarding 'disk integrity' tools for sometime now... Specifically, as regards computers that use an operating-system by Microsoft, there's been 4 tools ...
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Is windows chdsk enough or there are better alternatives to recover filesystem?

Recently I have various problems of file corruption on Windows 8.1 x64 when I copy large files. Using HD Tune Utility apparently there is no hardware problem the already present files are fine too, ...
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Cloned a failing hard drive - some files seem to be damaged, how to check and find them?

The hard drive in my PC was failing, so I cloned its 2 partitions to a new disk. Cloning the bootable Windows XP partition finally worked (at least it seems so, as I was able to boot from it, but ...
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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. ...
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"Deleting index entry" i lost my files

Sometimes My PC check disk on startup. Here is the log Checking file system on D: The type of the file system is NTFS. One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the ...
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How to check that all files in a file system are can be read without errors?

I'm using an external hard drive with an ext4 file system to make backups. The backup software I use (faubackup) copies the file hierarchy 1:1 into a timestamp-named folder on the hard drive, and ...
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Is safe check a NTFS Windows 7 partition using Hiren Boot Mini XP and executing partition check?

I'm unable to check HD from the Windows 7 installation cos seem to me that due to problems on the PC HD, Windows 7 is so unstable that don't allow me run its check partition tool. So I decide that ...
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When click D drive: Application Not Found

I wanna make some space in my D drive. Just 648 mb of free space and the disk have 117GB. I click properties, "Tools" tab, and "Check now" button. That was during too long, so I cancel it. But when I ...
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Non-functional laptop screen, suddenly starts working after CheckDisk (but than dies again)

I got a very mysterious problem. I got an HP Pavilion DV7-2270US 17.3', that serves me for the last 3 years (bought at 09/11). About 1 year ago the laptop screen just stopped working (without any ...
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Disable XP disk check using FAT32

Right now I'm using Windows XP and Macintosh on my MacBook Pro via Bootcamp. Sometimes my XP would crash and when I restarted it it would have to go through disk check, although it says I can skip it ...
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Check bad sector location

Doing a checkdisk on one of my partition in Windows XP, it reports that there is 4KB in bad sectors. How can I know if this bad sector belongs to a file/folder or not, and if yes which file/folder it ...
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How can I disable checking the NTFS file system when booting the system?

Windows Vista SP2 and Win7: After the BIOS gets done posting, CHKNTFS checks the NTFS file system before proceeding to login. I would like to disable CHKNTFS, as this makes the boot process very long....
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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 ...
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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?
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Unplugging disk during error checking

I'm currently running a check disk on my external hard drive, and it's in phase 4 with no visible progress on the progress bar. Unfortunately, I have to turn off the computer that's running the test. ...
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What to do when Windows 7 fails to start the disk drive check?

I suspect there are problems with my hard disk, so I wanted to start a drive check, as outlined in this Microsoft article. However, after selecting both Automatically fix file system errors and Scan ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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What to do about "ntuser.dat.log corrupt and unreadable"?

Since a few days ago I keep getting the below error message when I open some programs. I ran Chkdsk with all options but it didn't fix it. Has anyone run into this and fixed it?
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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, ...
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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. ...
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External Hard Disk's secter could not be read?

I've an 500 GB Seagate External Hard Disk (NTFS) . Currently, I can't open it at Windows. Thus, I've tired with chkdsk command .. but still it stopped and can't continue checking disk.. Also I've ...
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Run VISTA disk check without reboot

I want to perform a surface scan on my harddisks (S-ATA, P-ATA, USB and E-SATA) in windows VISTA. Is it possible to do this without scheduling the scan on next reboot? It takes a lot of time and I ...
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Alternatives to Windows-builtin checkdisk utility for NTFS?

For some reason Windows 7's checkdisk freezes and doesn't move its progress bar forward for over an hour, while the disk is still supposedly active. Now it's possible that if I left it overnight 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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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Disable XP disk check?

We periodically have XP crashes. When we restart XP we go through a disk check that takes half an hour. Do we need to do this disk check? Can we disable it? Update: Partition is indeed FAT32
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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 ...
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Windows unable to write to disk during chkdsk and office saves

Windows is failing to write out to disk for the following events. During a chkdsk operation, it's screaming that there is no disk space available to correctly write the fix operations it just ...
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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 ...
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