A UPS failed and a Hyper-V box hosting 6 VMs went down (all Windows Server 2008 R2 x64, if it matters). When I booted back up, it did not automatically perform a chkdsk (which I have seen in the past). I didn’t notice whether any of the VMs did chkdsk as they came back up. … Read more
Has anyone had to deal with a corrupt file system on a storage gateway volume? One of my volumes is now telling me that it’s corrupted or unreadable. I’ve tried running a chkdsk /r on it and it took days (10TB volume). Once completed I got the same error message. I didn’t have snapshotting scheduled … Read more
So I hear pretty regularly that stopping a chkdsk in progress is bad and can possibly destroy data on your hard drive. I can’t seem to find any information as to why this is bad though. What can stopping chkdsk while it is running do, and why? At what points is chkdsk not doing destructive … Read more
I have a 40 GB USB hard drive formatted with NTFS on a PC running Windows XP Pro, SP3. I am trying to free as much space as possible. Windows Explorer tells me that I have about 200 MB of files on the drive (showing hidden and system files). When I show drive properties however … Read more
Unfortunately I had a couple of hard resets on a machine and it seems to have damaged an NTFS partition. O/S is Windows 2012R2. C:\Users\Administrator>chkdsk d: The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is XXXXXXX. WARNING! F parameter not specified. Running CHKDSK in read-only mode. Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure … Read more
Where can I find the log file of the chkdsk utility that runs when the server starts? Answer Start the Event Viewer. Navigate to Windows Logs -> Application. Look for entries with Source=Wininit, Event ID=1001. AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : rboorgapally , Answer Author : TimT
I have a large set of data (about nine million files of various sizes and types; mostly student home directories) and when I run chkdsk on the volume it spends a long time on a particular index. By “a long time” I mean several hours, a substantial fraction of the total time the chkdsk takes. … Read more
I’ve used several different tools for repairing disks and have been wondering if there is a list of what exactly CHKDSK can repair? The MFT? Boot sector? Backup boot sector? Clusters? What common issues can’t it fix? Answer CHKDSK (autochk.exe and chkdsk.exe, which share dll’s) runs in a few stages (the below is for NTFS … Read more
I’ve run chkdsk /F many times over the years…and today I had to run it on one of my 2008 R2 servers and I get the normal message: Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system … Read more
Just discovered I have gotten a FOUND.000 folder on my usb drive. I guess from running chkdsk once. It has three files in it: FILE0000.CHK FILE0001.CHK FILE0002.CHK What exactly can I do with these files? What are my options? Are they lost files? Are they garbage? Can I use them for anything at all? Or … Read more
