I have recurring BSODs that really have me scratching my head. Here’s a look at the errors: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT 0x1A (ntoskrnl.exe) – I’ve seen this 9 times since April 2012 NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM 0x24 (Ntfs.sys) – this one’s new, happend 4 days ago BAD_POOL_HEADER 0x19 (win32k.sys) – also new, happened 7 days ago My system specs: Intel Core … Read more
I have a system with a hard drive that has a few bad sectors. I used ddrescue to recover all available sectors on the drive, but the drive continues to develop new bad sectors so I junked it. Two runs by the manufacturer tool indicated DIFFERENT blocks of bad sectors, and two passes with SpinRite … Read more
Some background: I have been helping my uncle, a photographer, maintain a system of storage for all his work (Terrabytes of images!). We do this by using two external hard drives for his data storage. One of them we call the “Work Horse” drive, which he uses for working on files in Photoshop etc. thoughout … Read more
I ran chkdsk on a drive and when it got to stage 4 (verifying file data), this message appeared for some files: Windows replaced bad clusters in file ###### of name \path\filename.ext Does this mean that these files are now corrupt? I’m mainly concerned about ISOs and executables. Unfortunately, I don’t have hashes of them … Read more
I have a drive that I suspect is a bit borked but none of the sensors or alerts have gone off on it. Regardless I decided to move important files out of it before replacing it. But any move operations take for ever (sometimes it transfer at full speeds but then it ocassionally drops to … Read more
When I tried to do a Windows Vista Complete PC Backup, I received an error message that blathered about bad sectors. Then, when I ran chkdsk /r on the destination drive, this is what I got: C:\Windows\system32>chkdsk /R E: The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is Desktop Backup. CHKDSK is verifying … Read more
When I reboot my Windows 7 machine, I get the error: Autochk cannot run due to an error caused by a recently installed software package The only way I can get rid of it is to boot from the Windows install DVD, get into command prompt and run chkdsk. Then when I reboot from the … Read more
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When I run the chkdsk command on my boot drive, I get an error message “CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.” What does this mean, and how can I fix it? C:\>chkdsk c: The type of the file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives. I am running Windows 7, 64 … Read more
Running Windows 8.0 Pro, chkdsk has a /scan option that Runs a online scan on the volume (sic). What is an online scan? My guess is that it runs it while letting you use the drive, which is good if it’s your c: drive. Here’s the full options: CHKDSK [volume[[path]filename]]] [/F] [/V] [/R] [/X] [/I] … Read more
