I’m trying to run a custom backup on my old Win Server 2008, I want to replace the C:\ hard drive. I run the backup and select “Different Options” then “Custom” and then I select “Bare Metal” and it auto picks: Bare Metal Recovery System State System Reserved Local Disk C: I have a second … Read more
The set-up I have a laptop running windows 7 with one internal hard drive with 5 partitions NTFS SystemReserved NTFS c: NTFS Shared data Linux Boot Linux Root. I’m booted into windows and the Linux partitions are not mounted so ignore 4 and 5. I have partition 3 (shared data) mounted as a folder off … Read more
On a Server 2008 R2 member server I schedule chkdsk to check drives C: and N:. Only the results for the N: drive are seen in event viewer. In previous Windows Servers, chkdsk results for drive C: appeared in event viewer. Is that still the case or is there another reason why I’m not seeing … Read more
I recently dual-booted under Vista x64 and Ubuntu 9.04. Instead of using Vista to re-partition before installing Ubuntu, I just let the Ubuntu installer re-partition the drive. Now when I boot into Vista, CHKDSK runs. It passes the first stage, but it hangs on the second “verifying indexes” stage. If I skip it, everything seems … Read more
After one of the drives in our IBM RAID gone, we bought a new one and replaced it. The rebuilding went fine, but now we see “Bad stripes” reported for the logical disk. Moreover, some data can not be read from the disk, and ServeRAID reports bad blocks. CHKDSK just hangs on 22% of reading, … Read more
I am running automated backups on a Windows Server 2016 since a couple of days. We are backing up the System as well as an entire Volume which contains the Server Folders. This Volume is a Software RAID1 controlled by Intel Rapid Storage. Besides the server folders directory there is another folder currently on that … Read more
I checked an external HD connected to Windows Server 2012 R2 with the following command and output (sorry it is in Portuguese – it says there are no problems in the file system and no action is necessary, and no other text says anything significant): E:\>chkdsk e: /scan O tipo do sistema de arquivos é … Read more
I have an issue that hard drive space appears to be going missing on my Windows Server 2012 R2 DataCentre virtual machine running Exchange 2016 CU5. By “missing” I mean that the amount of free space as reported by explorer for the drive (20.1Gb) is wildly different from the value I get by taking total … Read more
Trying to resize 2 ntfs system and boot partitions (windows 2003 server) using GParted. Goal: Resize D: (/dev/sda1) to ~850G – this is the boot drive with D:\ntldr, boot.ini, etc. Resize C: (/dev/sda5) to 100G – this is the system drive with C:\windows Tried resizing /dev/sda5 first and got the chkdsk error shown in screenshot … Read more
I need to run chkdsk on my server but I don’t want it to reboot and hang because it’s waiting for some input. I don’t have physical access to the server, I can only get to it through remote desktop. Is it possible to do the chkdsk unattended? I only need to do it once, … Read more
