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Hundreds of NTFS 55 errors on external hd
I hope this is the correct forum to post this? About a week ago, I opened a file that I had been working on the night before and received an error that the file was corrupt. I checked the event viewer and discovered a ton of these NTFS 55 errors. My system had been running fine up to this point.
I tried to run a chkdsk on the external drive and could not get it to run. I finally got it to run while in safe mode. I ran both chkdsk /f & /r to see if it would fix the issues. In fact I ran it several times and once on my internal drive as well. ( Please see the attached results.) I also ran a system health report and everything was good except for the volume E external drive. It had "The Volume Dirty Flag is set on the Disk" error and it advised to run Chkdsk to see if it could be repaired. (see the attached results)
I'm a digital artist and I keep all of my work on this external drive so it gets a lot of use. It's over 4 years old and I figured it was probably on it's last leg. So I backed up all of my doc's to my other external drive and uninstalled the E: drive to see if that would clear up the errors I was getting. I think this issue has snowballed a bit as the event viewer was beginning to show many various errors.
The problem is, once I uninstalled the old E: external drive, several other problems have appeared. I went to check the event viewer, there was a strange font being used and I was unable to read it. I checked in my font folder and got rid of that font and then when I tried to view the event viewer again, I got the snap in error "System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException" and I have been unable to view the details in the event viewer. Also, all of the fonts for my system had gotten really small. I usually keep the font size on the medium size which is 125% of the default. I checked in the display section of the control panel and it shows the 125% box is ticked, but my fonts are so small, I can barely read them. The other thing that has occurred is when I tried to access the internet with my Firefox browser, it would connect, but I could not see any of the type. Everything was black, even all the drop down menu's? Boooo!
I have been researching to try to determine what has caused these issues and have not found a solution. I thought maybe a "restore" to an earlier time before all these issues began might help so I ran a restore back to 7-16-11. It worked, however my issues were not corrected. I also ran an sfc/scannow on my C drive to see if there were any corrupt files on it as well, but it all came out clean. I also ran a full scan to be sure I did not have a virus of some sort and it came out clean as well.
I can't understand what could possibly be causing these strange errors? I correctly uninstalled my external hard drive? So just for giggles, I re-installed my external hard drive just to see what would happen. When I re-booted, my fonts were all restored back to their normal state and I was able to access the internet again with my firefox browser. I still have been unable to access the event viewer though. I'm sure it's probably corrupt.
Can anyone please shed some light and point me in the right direction? I've run into a dead end it seems and if I play with this much longer, I'm sure I will make the snarl much worse. I have a feeling I'm probably going to need to reinstall everything. It's just I have lost a weeks worth of work and if I can get the issues resolved with out a timely reinstall, it would really be helpful.
I have attached copies of the chkdsk, health report, sfc scan and event viewer snap-in error and you can see my system spec's in the signature. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.:)