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CHKDSK is a command on computers running DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows operating systems that displays the file system integrity status of hard disks and floppy disk and can fix logical file system errors. It is similar to the fsck command in Unix. It is short for "Check disk". On computers running NT-based versions of Windows, CHKDSK can also check the disk surface for physical errors or bad sectors, a task previously done by SCANDISK.

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Can't resize NTFS partition using GParted (ntfsresize)

I wanted to clone an old and slow 2tb HDD (230gb used, everything else is backed up) to a 240gb SSD with Clonezilla. It gave me errors, saying that the disk is to big to clone. I decided to boot ...
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Should you run chkdsk to repair two problematic .docx files?

I have two problematic .docx files. After opening the file: After clicking Yes: Tried all four methods of this part of the troubleshooting guide from Microsoft. None worked. One solution from the ...
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running chkdsk on SD card throws "Cannot open volume for direct access" error

Please consider that I am running chkdsk on the SD card, not my boot drive. Therefore solutions mentioned in other posts including "clean boot" or "safe mode" don't apply to my ...
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Chkdsk for a specific directory or File !?!? The Syntax

I need help to chkdsk a specific Directory : F:\GOG\*.* I am too stupid to understand the chkdsk sytax for file: CHKDSK [Volume[[Pfad]Dateiname]]] [/F] [/V] [/R] [/X] [/I] [/C] [/L[:Größe]][/B] [/scan]...
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Run sfc /scannow or chkdsk /f first

Is it better to run ChkDsk /f first, then Sfc /ScanNow or is it better to run the other way around, and does it matter which is run first, as I see no guides online saying which is the best option?
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Is it possible that some recovered files after chkdsk scan may be corrupted?

would like to ask if files recovered from faulty HDD, after chkdsk scan (before it was not possible to copy them) may have been corrupted, despite being possible to copy them all (again; after chkdsk ...
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PC did a chkdsk scan on startup without me scheduling it

so, my pc did a chkdsk scan on startup without me even accessing cmd beforehand. by the way, before it did the scan i was in the UEFI but I didnt change anything, I just looked at the settings and ...
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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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Chkdsk Stage 3 Error but "Chkdsk /f" Fails to Execute Repair at Windows Restart

Summary: I have a volume corruption: Specifically, it is a chkdsk Stage 3 Error. At stage 3, Chkdsk verifies Security Descriptors and USN Journals. However, chkdsk /f repair fails to run at Windows ...
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CHKDSK: "A disk read error occurredc0000010" on external USB HDD 3.0

I have a external HDD toshiba hdtb310xk3aa (1TB), and I have used it for a couple of years as storage for a Xbox One (Xbox HDD format), but from a couple of months I formatted it to NTFS to used it in ...
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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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Does chkdsk without volume letter check current volume or everything?

chkdsk /r Does it check current volume or does it check every volume (full drive)? I read somewhere that without letter it works on current volume (so c: if I run it from c:/) so I decided to be fancy ...
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DISKPART formatted the disk, CHKDSK takes forever

I have a Seagate external USB 1TB drive. It seemed to be working fine. As a routine maintenance, I did a CHKDSK /f /r on it. To my surprise, CHKDSK reported a lot of errors at stage 1, 2, 3, 4. Stage ...
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No drive letter, cant initialize, I/O errors...is my SSD dead?

I have an SSD that is not recognized when I plug in via SATA. Tried all ports and swapped cables. It is now attached to an SSD to USB dongle Not recognized or mounted in windows 7 (dont ask :) ran ...
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Windows shows 150GB less than Chkdsk

Windows is reporting 199GB free when CHKDSK reports ~350GB free. The drive in question is a 1TB SSD that was my former Windows drive. I have run disk check and checked for shadows. How can I reclaim ...
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Is running chkdsk enough to make sure data is not corrupted?

I have a Seagate 500GB USB HDD...I was downloading a file with google chrome into the drive and then suddenly my system crashed...I restarted the system and ran the following tests on the disk: (1) ...
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Windows 10 corrupt boot sector - system will not boot

After replacing an SSD that failed to boot properly, I still have trouble. The new SSD is a Samsung EVO 860 500GB, running Win10 64. On booting, the error is: reboot and select proper boot device I ...
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PC stalls and eventually crashes

I am home for the holidays and my father is having computer issues I was asked to fix, but am unsure of how to fix the issue. I have a server running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard edition that has 5 ...
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Why does CHKDSK find file system errors after formatting a disk?

I'm having trouble copy data to a brand new disk. I don't know yet if this is the result of the tools I've used, sequence of events during copying, or some issue with the files prior to being copied. ...
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Run chkdsk on a drive that is not recognized (not present in diskpart)

I have an SSD with damaged NTFS (probably due to the old age, although SMART doesn't mention "near failure" state anywhere and still gives it 31% or resource). I was able to recover most of ...
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Is it possible to overuse chkdsk?

I perform a chkdsk /f/v/sdcleanup/perf/scan every time I use an external USB drive or hard disk drive — and on my internal drives — every time I copy or delete a big file (size more than 1GB) only to ...
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How is Windows 10 still checking my disks at boot when I have deleted all the chkdsk exe files?

Background I have a Windows 10 Pro (20H2) computer that will always begin a chkdsk on my E: drive on boot. The E: drive is an 11TB volume created with Window's "Manage Storage Space" tool. ...
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How to know which drives are chkdsk on startup

I have a PC with 2 internal disks A (2 partitions, bitlocked) and B (1 partition), running Windows 10 v2004 (20H1). When booting with B, a checkdisk is runned at startup. I cancel it before the 8 ...
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chkdsk An unspecified error occured (6c6f6766696c652e 2a9)

I ran the chkdsk /f command for my external Toshiba 2TB hard drive. It ran the first two stages just fine. However, gave an error at the 3rd Stage. Following is the output log from chkdsk at Stage 3 ...
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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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Random corruption of MFT in external drives require CHKDSK for fix

I have this problem for months now. I am getting my external drives MFT corrupt. When i run CHKDSK afterwards, most of the time i get the files back in their places. I have changed external disks + ...
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chkdsk forever writing to the Bad Clusters File?

I need some guidance with a mysterious behavior of the Windows 7's chkdsk on a 500 GB NTFS partition of a Seagate Barracuda 3 TB connected to a Samsung Story Station. chkdsk seems to freeze towards ...
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What `chkdsk` verifies and what it does not verify? [duplicate]

What kind of problems chkdsk can identify? Are there any disk problems that chkdsk cannot identify and will mark a malfunctioning storage device as a healthy one? Are there cases when I would need to ...
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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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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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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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Check health of Set Top Box HDD

My Set Top Box is acting weird (image frozen after a while, specially if I rewind a transmission) so I suspect it's the HDD that could be faulty and because of the Coronavirus pandemic I don't want to ...
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Windows 10 only boots after running chkdsk /f

We have a PC with Windows 10 which boots up until it gets to the Windows restore options. Once I get into them, I can go to the Advanced startup options and reboot it in Safe Mode with CMD prompt. ...
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What do I do with "._" files?

I used "chkdsk X: /f" for the drive "E:", which is an external USB flash drive. It said it is formatted in FAT32 and then said that Windows can't use it because it already is being ...
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How do I revert my flash drive back to normal after using "chkdsk X: /f"?

I wanted to recover a previous version of a file on an external USB flash drive. I searched about it and found a method by using "chkdsk X: /f" in Command Prompt. I opened command prompt and ...
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CHKDSK showing same error even after fixing (Windows 7 SP1)

I have a 6TB data hard drive (SATA mechanical) on my Windows 7 SP1 (64-bit) computer. It isn't my boot drive. I just use it to store data files. This morning my computer froze and showed blue screen ...
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Stop scanning\contention on dual boot win7 win10 system

I have a win 7 install, which I have added a drive and installed win 10 on a separate drive. To stop each windows install from messing with the other disk, I have disabled those disks in the device ...
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How many reparse records are a lot?

My computer is acting strangely, slowing and freezing or partially freezing (some applications but not all) fairly often; it has blue screened 3 times in three weeks; I had at least one NTFS error. I ...
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System running extremely slowly after chkdsk /f and bsod

[Windows 10 Home] After getting a bsod with the Kernel Security Check Failure error I performed various suggested checks on my system, being a malware scan, Window's memory diagnostics tool, sfc/...
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Windows - Can't delete / get rid of a file on a damaged cluster

My laptop started to do a CheckDisk/CHKDSK every boot, and after some investigations, I found the culprits : some files on damaged clusters. With a little bit of perserverance, I finally managed to ...
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Can resizing a partition give chkdsk more clusters for recovery?

chkdsk /f /r is showing "The disk does not have enough space to replace bad clusters". I know I need to replace the drive, but some files were not readable when I went to copy the data off. Would ...
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Problems with access to run CHKDSK

I am trying to run ChkDsk on my Windows 10 laptop before upgrading to an iMac. I am the main user and access has been denied because I do not have sufficient privileges. How do I get around this?
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Why chkdsk stuck here for few minutes eventhough with 0 bad sectors?

I performed chkdsk on F drive, i find it stuck for few minutes before it goes smoothly: At red mark, it stuck about 20-30 mins. chkdsk on another drives went smoothly. Why chkdsk stuck here for ...
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CHKDSK stuck at 30% for hours - can't boot to Windows

I have a laptop with a Windows 8 partition (412.00 GB) and a recently-created Ubuntu 18.04 LTS partition (36.51 GB). My goal is to shrink the Windows partition (I have some free space there) to make ...
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How to disable automatic CHKDSK of new drives at Windows 7 startup?

Windows 7 seems to automatically performs a CHKDSK of any new hard-drive installed in a computer at startup (before login screen). There is a way to skip that by pressing a key but you have to be ...
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Defective SD card or not? CHKDSK contradicts itself in scan report [duplicate]

Scans of a SD card in Windows PC lead to chains of clusters with similar numbers. Does this point to decfective SD card rather than to other possible causes (bad card reader, problems with flashcard ...
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Get filename of file repaired by chkdsk

I've got this error when running chkdsk /f: D:\>chkdsk /f The type of the file system is NTFS. Cannot lock current drive. Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. ...
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The file or Directory is corrupted and unreadable - chkdsk not working

Unintentionally powered off external HDD when moving some files with the move command. Now the move target folder is "The file or Directory is corrupted and unreadable". chkdsk E: /f /r /x Failed ...
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Coun't not find this item error while copy files on windows

I did a backup of my Linux computer on an NTFS hard drive. When I try to delete or copy some directories in windows I have the following message: "Coun't not find this item" but with the explorer, I ...
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Cannot run Parallels Transporter Agent due to disk errors

I'm trying to clone my old Windows 7 machine to a Parallels VM image, but the Parallels Transporter Agent refuses to work because of disk errors. I've run chkdsk c: /R /F multiple times, but every ...
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