Hey All,
I've been running chkdsk on my external drive (Data Backup). Every time I run it I get the same error that it's found a problem and fixed it. But if I run it again I get the same Error again that it keeps finding the same orphaned file. I don't seem to be able to fix it.
Drive has been running with no problems. Have scanned for bad sectors and found nothing.
Any help would be appreciated. :)
Have you run it with the /F switch as in the report, it says it should belong to Dir 17, but not that it was fixed.
Hi Cyclic,
Yes I've tried it with /F from the command prompt, still the same result when I run it again.
Have you tried it from the Recovery console command prompt? Sometimes that works as I have found in rare cases...if that doesnt work, we got some serious issues...
I don't know how practical this would be, but I recently had an external drive with a similar problem and I moved the data off it then wiped the partition, created a new partition and moved the data back.
So far, so good.
Thanks for the replies. I'll try from the recovery console and report back as I'm not at home at the moment.
Sorry if this is a weird question but If I was to copy the data to another drive would it also copy the errors as well?
Good question. I don't know, but all being well someone else will. :)
OK, So I tried running from Recovery, still the same outcome every time.
Have you tried wiping the drive and creating a new partition? Thinking back to when I did the same it did clear the problem so my guess is it's worth a try.
Even if moving the data back gives you the same problem you're no worse off and if it doesn't you're home and dry.
Well my T: drive is my data backup drive and My D: drive is where I keep all my original data. The D drive shows no errors.
I'm just worried that if I wipe my D: drive and copy all the files from T to D I'm going to have errors on my D drive as well. It's about 520GB of Data so it's a bit of a concern. I've got nowhere else to save that much Data at the moment.
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