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problems with hard drive
a year or two back l RMA'd a hard drive because it suddenly started asking me to scan it (and kept on becoming inaccessible while l ran the scan) lve just checked the warranty on my current and it looks like l got given a reconditioned drive which is out of warranty and annoyingly its started doing exactly the same thing that happened to my last drive, its a ST3000DM001, l have no way of putting it in my system without spending 20mins undoing cable ties it was hell putting in my drive replacements with the lack of room.
lve tried running scans within windows and in safe mode but every time l get so far the drive space bar disappears and chkdsk seems to just sit doing nothing, is there anything l can run outside of windows that may help? because lve run chkdsk through an elevated command prompt and its got to the part where it scans for unindexed files to reconnect to original directories and it notes one file so far but hasnt moved in the last 10mins.