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A surface test of my hard disk with some partition tools showed one or more bad sectors. How can I find out exactly which of my files allocated space these bad sectors in the past? ....and which are now corrupted? I have heard that a "chkdsk" run could repair/exclude these bad sectors...

I am using CreateFile to open a snapshot volume, and ReadFile to read from it. On one system I had an attempt to read 1 mb fail with a CRC error. As I understand it, the drive should be doing its own bad sector mapping, but apparently it's not. I know that NTFS has bad sector handling, does...

Please help me to get my PC (MEDION Akoya P5348) out of Automatic Repair nightmare and back into windows 10. PC has been running well for years. I changed settings in BIOS to enable onboard graphics so that I could have 3 monitors, namely: Initiate Graphic Adapter and DVMT Total Gfx Mem. This...

My wife has an HP laptop, model 14-1023cl if I can read the faded label correctly. If runs Windows 8 with one of the add-ons to make it look more like earlier versions. Maybe 8.1 instead? Sorry, I don't know. Avast runs daily. A few days ago it was very slow, and froze with a blank dull blue...

Hello, I am not a techie at all and wanted to see if someone could look at the results of my chkdsk and let me know if there are problems? I had some bad clusters and something called read failures. I'd really appreciate any help or light someone could shed on this. I have read up on this in...

I am working on a Toshiba Satalight laptop. The HDD is starting to show bad sectors. I have a new HDD and would like to ghost all the info and partitions to the new drive. So it will have all the tools and the rescue image. Question what is the best utillity to use for this job? Sent from my...

Discovered and issue with a Dell machine that turned out to be some bad sectors on th HDD that were found and repaired by seatools.Install of windows 7 was fresh prior to discovering the HDD errors, now it run fine, but widows update keep failing with the code: Code 8024200D on these two...

I've got an out of warranty drive that has a bunch of bad sectors, which I'm going to replace with a new drive. The fact that the drive still works (after doing chkdsk) raises a question in my mind about a program called Hard Drive Regenerator. I understand that there is more than one reason...

Another of my WDC drives is biting the dust (WD30EZRX)...not that it seems to matter what the model is, because I've now owned a number of WDC drives, and none of them has lasted through their warranty period. It seems to be becoming a vicious RMA circle. The drive that I'm now having to...

I just received a replacement drive for a WD5001AALS 500GB Black that had some bad sectors. The "new" drive is a WD1001FALS white label 1000GB. While I'm not very pleased about the label, I thought that the size difference sort equaled things out, but I wasn't sure how it would effect my...

A couple of days ago there was an update. After that update my system slowed down a lot. The windows explorer takes about 10 seconds to open. The same kind of thing happened with the update in the beginning of last November. Running the disk error check helped a lot (when I finally found some...

First: A little Information: Full Article @ Microsoft Offering Improved CHKDSK Utility in Windows 8 -- Redmondmag.com Tutorial for running CHKDSK: There are 2 options to running CHKDSK (Check Disk) in Windows 8 Option #1: Run CHKDSK from "My Computer" 1. Open "My Computer" either from...

Hi I have a drive, that shows reallocated sectors. I have taken this drive, and low level format/Write Zeroes, ran stress test for several days, the drive is performing well. Have done several error scans, all is well. I need to clear the Glist/Plist, within the drives firmware. i don't...

I have for several weeks recently been plagued by BSOD's which randomly attributed the cause to different culprits. Early in the events the graphics driver was fingered and I spent good money on returning my costly graphics card under warranty for checking. It came back with a clean bill of...

Need help in one help. i received one error msg in my windows 7 hdd. "your HDD is about to crash, pls starts a backup process". i ran the tool of error checking & bad sector repairing from HDD properties, did AV checking. but no result. any one have any solution pls help. Regards SuvankarLink...

Hi, okay, so after booting my PC earlier today Windows System Maintenance started up without prompting and after a while had this to say: Attempt repairs of disk volume errors Reboot computer to repair volume problems such as bad sectors, lost clusters, cross-linked files, and directory...

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Hello everyone, I am experiencing a very strange and annoying problem. Specifically around 1,5 month ago my netbook turned itself off because of the empty battery, and i received a bluescreen when i've tried to start it again. First thing i've attempted to do was startup repair (worked like a...

Have been using W7 for a couple of months - last night it decided to reboot and will not complete the reboot. Tried to repair using the W7 tools without success. I ran Sea tools and it found 4 bad sectors and fixed them. No change so far. It still will not start and go to the desktop. The...